Was there any state in history more powerful than the United States of America?

was there any state in history more powerful than the United States of America?

Define "powerful"

Modern America is kind of a joke tier civilization, constantly debasing itself and worrying about dumb shit like micro aggressions and "racism". I'm sure they have a lot of nukes they could drop, but so do other nations. I hope the UK burns down DC again.

>UK
>Doing anything besides prepping Muslim bulls

You are retarded.

I cannot hear you over the sound of the number one economy and military.

In absolute sense no, in relative sense China and Roman Empire were more powerful, as well as giving something to the world that's not trash mass produced "culture".;

UK. Maybe Mongolia. Rome.

By no means in a literal sense.
The Britons held similar hegemony during their Victorian Golden Age

However the Romans, at their zenith, were even more unquestioned than America is now.

Basically this

>it's not culture if I don't like it! degeneracy!
you know where you have to back to

>China
Modern China doesn't have a blue water fleet, are checked by the Russians even as a major regional power in eastern Asia and can't project their military power across the world.
>Rome
Ditto to the above, the Romans had the Parthians/Persians rivaling them for over 800 years and never had the sort of economic might, population, or force projection to go wherever they wanted on the globe.

Closest proxy to the modern US' might is the British Empire at its height in the late 19th to early 20th century.

Yes, degeneracy if you want. USA lacks high culture, this is not a /pol/ thing to say at all.

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I really hope you aren't this illiterate.

>every culture before america only made art for super wealthy people
>only art for super wealthy people counts as culture
this is a retarded thing to say and moving the goalposts but even then there are examples of this in America. painting, literature, poetry, music, experimental films. these things have been made since 1776 and are still being made although I'm sure you'll say this doesn't count and change the definition of culture yet again.

I hope that none of you rally against console warriors on /v/ because you're exactly the same.

Retard.

If you mean militarily, no. If you mean in terms of population, the Achaemenid Empire controlled a little under half of the world population at its zenith. If you mean in terms of the world's economy, the British Empire might have us beat.

>UK.

Absolute retardation
Britain was a "superpower" in trade, but certainly not in military might

In WW1 (around the height of the British Empire), Britain struggled for 4 years against lone Germany while being helped by France, Russia and America

The British Empire was a trade hegemon, but it was never a military powerhouse capable of taking on everyone at once like Rome, Napoleonic France, Nazi Germany or (the strongest of all) current America

>every culture before america only made art for super wealthy people

I'll take "Who was Shakespeare" for $200.

>number one economy and military.
>your struggling to scrape together enough for tendies tonight
really gives the noggin a floggin

Yes. The absolute state of american brainlets.

Of course you can't. You went deaf because you couldn't afford to go to the hospital.

kys socialist scum, go live in Venezuela

Fucking brutal

Underestimating Americans is fun, but they do have most of the world on a string, with potential for massive growth.

Also Alexander's Macedon, albeit for a very short time, and the British Empire before Germany's rise to power

Too hot. Also, your county's commonfolk live like feudal peasants. If I killed myself, my beneficiaries of my estate wouldn't have to pay a death tax.

Most powerful economy in the world
Best military in the world
Cultural hegemon over the world
Economic Hegemon over the world
Political hegemony is leading global power
Surroumding "potential"enemy countries with their military bases

No. No there hasn't been a single state or empire to reach this level lf power because the ability to reach a state of global hegemony wasn't possible until the latter half of the 1800s. Even so, the competition of those states striving to do so allowed for their destructiom and hegemonic domination by the U.S.A.

Literally only became as popular as he did thanks to the patronage of Queen Elizabeth