Essay: Gold reserves by country. The USA is still golden!

Gold reserves by country ranked in order in 2023 by tons of gold.

USA's gold reserves

• Top 10 Countries With Largest Gold Reserves, U.S. Global Investors, 2021
• "Amount of present gold holdings: 147.3 million ounces. About half of the Treasury's stored gold (as well as valuables of other federal agencies) is kept at Fort Knox. Highest historic gold holdings: 649.6 million ounces (December 31, 1941)" - Fort Knox Bullion Depository

The United States will likely be the strongest country for the foreseeable future and this is due to the strengths of the USA and partly due to the weaknesses of China and Russia.

See: Essay: The United States will be the leading power in the world for the foreseeable future

Why central banks buy gold

• Why central banks buy gold, Reuters

User Conservative's international politics essays

In the above map, the Western World regions of the world are colored light blue.

There are countries in Asia that have adopted much of Western values such as Japan, South Korea and the Philippines.

The above graphic comes from the video Why the West Won’t Collapse with Stephen Kotkin (Stephen Kotkin is an American historian, academic, and author.)

General

• The myth of multipolarity. What do the terms unipolar, bipolar and multipolar mean as far as international relations?
• The so-called multipolar world is often mere Chinese propaganda and public relations
• Why did so many self-declared international relations experts miserably fail concerning their multipolar fantasy?
• What drives Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin?
• Why has the West been so successful?
• Why the corrupt, authoritarian regimes of China and Russia are losing their long term competitive edge relative to the USA
• Slow and steady growth over the long term via capitalism and the rule of law versus short-sighted authoritarian economic growth that is costly to the long term economy
• American and Western triumphalism or a realistic appraisal of world affairs?
• Attention anti-American hyper Russophiles/Sinophiles. Time is not on your side
• The 2023 BRICS Summit was a bunch of hoopla. We still don't live in a multipolar world.
• The wreck of the HMS Multipolar World Fantasy - Humor
• The anti-Christianity Mao Zedong, Fidel Castro, Joseph Stalin and Xi Jinping have opposed homosexuality so this isn't a very high moral bar for China and Russia to clear

The United States

• The United States will be the leading power in the world for the foreseeable future
• The USA has one of the highest labor productivity rates in the world - significantly higher than both China and Russia
• The USA is more innovative and productive than China and Russia
• Business is more powerful than military might. All REAL Americans know this!
• Is the USA an economic powerhouse and juggernaut?
• Size of a working age population in a country and its correlation with national GNP in advanced economies. The ability of the United States to attract some of the best and brightest workers in the world

The flag of the United States

• Top 12 reasons why people are flocking to the USA and leaving the corrupt, authoritarian countries of China and Russia
• Isolationalism is growing in the United States. Is this a good thing?
• The USA is outproducing Russia and Saudi Arabia in oil production. The best is yet to come
• The USA can reduce its national debt. It has done it before
• The citizens of the United States are happier than the citizens of Russia and China. USA! USA! USA!
• The U.S. Navy is the most powerful navy in the world
• The genius of the founding fathers of the United States, happiness and labor productivity
• Why I am glad that Conservapedia has an American flag in its logo rather than a Chinese or Russian flag
• The USA will become bigger, better and stronger than ever before! Russia and China will not! USA! USA! USA! - Humor
• Attention all hyper Sinophiles/Russophiles. The USA being better than China and Russia is an incredibly low bar for Americans to jump over!

China

• Skepticism about China remaining a global power
• It's time to be very bearish about China's long-term economy
• The rising rule of communist idiocracy in China
• Was December 2021 a pivotal moment in the future of global politics for decades to come?

Russia

Vladimir Putin

See also: Vladimir Putin is a corrupt kleptocrat and an authoritarian

• Why I am not bullish on Russia's future

• Vladimir Putin is a corrupt kleptocrat and an authoritarian

• Russia is not a conservative country

• Russia is dying out. The war in Ukraine is making Russia's demographic crisis even worse

• Low labor productivity is one of the most acute and important problems facing Russia

• Russia's economy is that of a shrinking, aging, and poorly qualified population

• Russia's labor shortage

• Russia is far behind the USA and China as far as innovation and Russia's ability to innovate is likely going to get worse

• Russia has the 3rd highest rate of divorce in the world

• We Made History: Citizens of 35 Countries Overestimate Their Role in World History (Covers the notion of Russian exceptionalism)

• Does Russia have more national narcissism than the USA? How exceptional do Russians think their nation is?

• How anti-homosexuality is Russia? Are there countries that are more anti-homosexuality and more family-friendly?

• Russian war crimes in Ukraine

• Russian oil: Lower future production/profits due to future higher extraction costs and other inefficiencies

• Russia has the 2nd highest rate of alcoholism in the world

• Russia's unfriendly business environment

• Russia's HIV/AIDS epidemic

• Are the Russians as unhappy as they claim they are?

• Vladimir Putin's foolish decision to launch an invasion of Ukraine in February 2022

• Russia's economy and gas and oil profits will be BADLY damaged when China's economy declines

• China's economic decline will contribute to Russia's decline

• Russia's neo-Nazi problem belies one of Putin's rationales for the war in Ukraine

• The future of Russia. The kings of wishful thinking versus a more realistic scenario

• Russia getting pummeled in wars in Russian history that hyper Russophiles will not tell you about

• The war in Ukraine and Western sanctions will significantly hurt the Russian economy

• Russia's economy will enter a long-term decline

• Is Vladimir Putin a beacon of family values or a complete failure in this matter?

• Is Vladimir Putin a manchild or a macho genius?

• Search results for "Russia demographics crisis" using the Russian search engine Yandex and Google Scholar. Fanatical Russophiles weep for Mother Russia who has a low fertility rate that is far below a replacement level of births

• Do you strongly believe in gun rights? Don't move to Russia!

• Nordsteam pipelines being sabotaged and Putin failing to play politics several moves ahead on the politics chess board

• Doomsday phobias - including nucleomituphobia caused by Russian threats to use a nuclear bomb

• Russian Statistics Service indicates that 22.6 percent of Russian households aren't connected to a sewer system

• America's sewage system is better than Russia's TERRIBLE sewage system

• Vladimir Putin understimates small opponents - big time! - Humor

• There is no evidence that Vladimir Putin plays chess - Humor

• Why a Westerner falling for Russian propaganda is like a man who is seduced by a corrupt 300 pound woman - Humor

War in Ukraine

• How long will the war in Ukraine last and what will its likely outcomes will be? A prediction on its outcomes
• The SPECIFIC MONTH OF APRIL 2022 was not a pivotal point in politics that will affect politics for 30 years

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