Ok first off the Russans have many more nuckes then the us. If say 20% don;t make it over here well they well stil have more hitting us soil. And in all honesty ITS A DAM NUKE. it makes one hell of a explosion. Wow u are 100 miles of target, just the falout alown fro all that messess everyone up. n a nuke fight, everyone loses, end of story. so as far as I am concerned, no smart persons hands are over any button. So as far as anyone should be concerned a lot of people got nukes, so it can not be used as a way of telling how powerful you are as no eon wants to use then, minus a few teriorests / roge cuntries.
You say the UN neads you. HAHAHHAHAHHHA

Sorry there is over 100 nations in the UN, you leave sorry but that means ther eis still a shit lot there who all have some military might. And as for training, the basic us troop is not as highley trained as you would like to think. Yes they are good but not best. The Canadian troops are much more well trained then the average US troop. You do a huge number of military excercises in CFB Gagetown (worlds bigest milirtary bace, and its canadian) ad gess what in mock fights we win. So hey you have numbers and special detatchements that help you out there but hey. Sorry Ben but had to put this in. Now as for you specia forces, they are Exece;emt troops , navey seals are another example but thye ar elimited numbers.
Now again I realy like the point that was made that the US needed britans help in there war on terisum. If it was not there then what would the US doo. Maby still do the war thing but hey no one would support them, and if it ended up bad, then its your issue, and even the US only has so many resoreces. You have to rember this world is dependent, we need thi cunerey for this, that one for that ... So last thing you do is piss off everyone, meaning you screw your self. Now if you don;t have the ability to piss off ereryone and get away with it without concenquences then hey you are dam powerful. but hey as I stated before you get a lot of power from canada and clean water. Thats ther eif shut off is a huge issue on its own. So in no way can we saw the US is self sufficent, meaning hey you piss everyone off you can lose big time.
Now hey the power bases of this world realy DO NOT lie in goverments. Corporations are a huge thing in tis word. If they are not there the goverment has nothing to bargen with such as trade and things because you have n trade. Again another dependencey. So hey ther eis a huge power baste ther enot giverment controled. Just taxed a bit.
Since Militery the presedent can';t just push a button, he has people to deal with first, this can not be considered as proving someone is not the most powerful. Basicaly we have someone to blame after the face, but thats it. Since we have dependanceys on each other, again you screw up the flow of dependenceys by stupiod moves, you agian screw yourself. So you again can not consider yourself to powerful as you reley on others. And then there is the idea of Corporations having huge influance which again means the US gocerment don't want to piss them off ot they again screqw themselves. Take M$, why the hell you think they are still one companey. They aso seam to donate cash to goverment, big suprise.
So this alown is more then enough to say hey no one person can be considered most powerful. Yes perople can be powerful but you can not say who is the top dog. Even the presedent have to answer to people. So Ben again sorry but you are wrong, the US presedent if powerful but can not be called the most powerful person int he world. But no one can be considered the most powerful in the world, because we are all dependent. Again sorry Ben, I am not set in my ways but people learn with me when I know I am right, I don't back down. I keep proving my point, and can continue to do so. So no offence, might as well let it go, I am a ass hehehe and I know I am right, its a bad combo for others ehhehe :gulp:
