Top 5 powerful countries

No one is brainwashing anybody. There is opposition everywhere these days.

The public school system today does anything BUT brainwash their students into believing America is the greatest country in the world. My Honors English teacher is one of the most anti-American people I have ever met in my life.

I don't know how things were when you were in school, but take it from someone who's there right now. The teacher I spoke of earlier may have interesting political views, but even he does not attempt to brainwash his students.

That said, kids usually aren't very patriotic. It's cool to be rebellious. Patriotism usually comes later in life when they realize what America has given them... the capacity to lead a successful, happy life.

PS, why would you even put France and Japan on the ballot?

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Originally Posted by northpark We? Your Profile Says AU. We have plenty of friends.

Not that I would expect an American to know anything about the countires tied to the U.S.A (too busy worrying about yourselves) but what he meant was, Australia is an allie of the U.S (friends).

That is why we were sucked into a stupid ****ing war in iraq because when Bush asked if we supported we couldn't say no or we wouldn't look so friendly would we. Then what happens when theres a nuclear war, we get ****ed cause U.S doesn't wanna have our back.

Offtopic, it is beyond me why voting is not mandatory in the U.S. And don't give me the "it because we're so free la la la look I can sit on my ass cause it's a free country" because as far as I can see, you are losing rights every day to your ****ed government (privay, right to a fair trail when it comes to suspected terrorism etc).

I voted for the US but I would pick the US, Russia, and China at the top of my list.

Originally Posted by stenson PS, why would you even put France and Japan on the ballot? o.O

I was wondering about Japan also

if anyone tried to **** with canada we have the entire commonwealth + the us, so i say we're pretty damn powerful.

Pretty pointless, most of pple here are from US, so no suprise there who they would vote for.

And as someone said, really does not matter who has most nukes, use a few of em and we are all dead...

China, the sheer manpower would wipe out the US army in a heartbeat. Someone mentioned they have faith in the US military training, I can guarantee you the Chinese are even more fanatical with training that the US ever will be. With pure military might, China would win any day. With nuclear weapons involved the US would win, that's how simple this thread is to answer.

The US like to say they are the best, the greatest etc, but when it comes down to reality they say those things to make other fearful and to inflate their own egos. They are not the best, they are simply the loudest. The US is really a scared little country who have to try and make themselves believe they are the best so they feel good about themselves.

Julian, it isn't just nukes, all out weapons are far superior to theres. We have enough scud's to put a red dot on every singal bomb/nuke/bunker or any country who choses to threaten us. I mean even our airforce alone is enough is demilitarize their whole country. Just because you are an anti american doesn't mean your right.

Originally Posted by Christian Julian, it isn't just nukes, all out weapons are far superior to theres. We have enough scud's to put a red dot on every singal bomb/nuke/bunker or any country who choses to threaten us. I mean even our airforce alone is enough is demilitarize their whole country. Just because you are an anti american doesn't mean your right.

I'd have to agree. If this was still like WWII time then yea China would probably win due to manpower but present time I would highly doubt it.

Woah hold on there, how do you know how much weaponry China has? How do you know what kind of weaponry they have?

Give me some facts before trying to refute my comments.