What was the strongest point of the United States as a world

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2016-01-04 04:49:06 Post No. 505780
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Anonymous 2016-01-04 04:49:06 Post No. 505780 [Report]

What was the strongest point of the United States as a world power?
1950s? 1990s? 2000s?

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Anonymous 2016-01-04 05:31:44 Post No.505969
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Anonymous 2016-01-04 05:31:44 Post No.505969 [Report]

>>505780
Late 40's and early 50's. Being the only nuclear power makes all the difference.

Anonymous 2016-01-04 05:32:42 Post No.505972
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Anonymous 2016-01-04 05:32:42 Post No.505972 [Report]

>>505780
Bretton-Woods sounds like a good metric to me

Anonymous 2016-01-04 05:36:39 Post No.505985
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Anonymous 2016-01-04 05:36:39 Post No.505985 [Report]

>>505969
Russia had nukes by 1949 m8.

Anonymous 2016-01-04 05:57:41 Post No.506050
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Anonymous 2016-01-04 05:57:41 Post No.506050 [Report]

>>505969
The nukes of late forties were the same thing as what followed

Anonymous 2016-01-04 06:06:37 Post No.506081
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Anonymous 2016-01-04 06:06:37 Post No.506081 [Report]

>>505969
You literally know nothing, USSR had a fighting chance of winning a European war all the way up until 1985 when their serious recessions hit, even as late as '81 they still had a chance, they lost military parity from 75-onwards, so the US would be at its strongest from post 80's to today

Anonymous 2016-01-04 06:06:52 Post No.506085
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Anonymous 2016-01-04 06:06:52 Post No.506085 [Report]

1991-2001

Those 10 years are probably the only time America was absolutely unchallenged by any international force, and more freely able to pursue goals that would have been deterred by the Soviets otherwise, such as the bombings of Yugoslavia, the accession of Warsaw Pact nations into NATO, driving US troops and weapons deeper into Russia's population cores.

I would say the 1945-49 era as well, but the US didn't have such a solidified control over the regions it enjoys having now in areas such as East Asia and Western/Central Europe.

Anonymous 2016-01-04 06:28:58 Post No.506147
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Anonymous 2016-01-04 06:28:58 Post No.506147 [Report]

>>506081
>USSR had a fighting chance of winning a European war all the way up until 1985

I've always wondered if we have the same access to soviet cold war strengths, weaknesses, expected results, and scenarios that we do with NATO. How do we know that the soviets didn't think they would do as poorly against NATO as we do against them?

Anonymous 2016-01-04 06:39:05 Post No.506184
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Anonymous 2016-01-04 06:39:05 Post No.506184 [Report]

>>506085
Yup... 1990s was Pax Americana

Just look at the OP's map... the whole of the West united in military alliance and even the Russians cucked into submission