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

Goose stepping changing of the guards in Russia at the Kremlin in 2006.

*Video: Goose-stepping guards at the Kremlin

"Russia is a declining power, and it will only get weaker with time." - International relations scholar John Mearsheimer

See: Almost half of global strategists think Russia could become a failed state within the next 10 years, Fortune magazine, January 23, 2023

For more information, please see: Will Russia become a failed state within 10 years? Is Russia currently a failed state? Will Russia eventually become a failed state?

"The Kalashnikov has become the Russian people's greatest export. After that comes vodka, caviar and suicidal novelists. One thing is for sure, no one was lining up to buy their cars." - The character Yuri Orlov, Lord of War movie, 2005

See:

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

*Russia: A land of potholes, bad roads and deteriorating car quality!

Skyscraper-high sewage plume of feces erupts in Moscow.[1]

See: Russia's sewage system crisis

Read: Russia: A land of potholes, bad roads and deteriorating car quality!

I used to be more interested in Russia, but the ButterGate scandal put a damper on that.

Russian President Vladimir Putin says that Russia's war economy is well balanced to supply both guns and butter, but the price of butter itself is now soaring as surging inflation distorts parts of the economy. The price of a block of butter has risen by 25.7 per cent since December, according to the state statistics service.

'The Armageddon with butter is escalating,' Russian economists claim on Telegram.

See: Butter prices soar in Russia amid surging inflation in war economy, CBC News, November 2, 2024 and Russians Resort to Stealing Butter Amid Shortages, Newsweek, October 29, 2024

Read: Why Trump tariffs pose a bigger threat to China’s economy this time, Reuters, November 2024

In the coming years and decades, the slowing Chinese economy will show that it is a fragile house of cards.