Brazil, Russia, India and China, all have a large number of problems that prevent them from reaching their assumed potential, all have a very impoverished population, none have so far lived up to their supposed economic potential, Russia’s population is actually declining and finally predicting the futures of any of these volatile countries is impossible
I tried this as TEC when I rushed to get Heavy Cruisers, I then scuttled one of my military research labs (I didn’t know what would happen so I only scuttled one), and found that I couldn’t build any more Heavy Cruisers, could you build any more gates for returning armada, or did it just continue to give you ships?
I don’t see any way the USA is replaced by China as the worlds sole superpower, sure it’s GDP is growing with extreme speed (due primarily to American investments), and it’s population is massive but those two things do not make a superpower, Americas GDP is still the highest in the world (with the possible exception of the EU but that entity is not a country) it’s military is (in conventional warfare) effectively invincible, and despite the constant stream of news about a recession (defined by
