What makes a country powerful.

[philipma1957]

All countries are weak to say any have real power is an illusion at this moment in this.

We are on a world that when spilt up has:

 1/3 of 1 acre of fresh water per person.
 4 acres of land per person.
12 acres of ocean per person.

If any country had real power they could fix the issue above. I say all are weak and suffer delusions of grandeur while the world literally is fucking itself to death.

You cited indicators that say only one thing - mankind is breeding mindlessly, and mindlessly destroying nature and resources. At the same time, whether we like it or not, the biggest population growth comes from poor countries (or rather, the poor population of countries). I do not think that this problem should and can be solved by the countries of the developed world. Why not? Because I don't know from hearsay how the world's aid has been "used" to help poor countries for decades.
Instead of local people demanding to build them factories, they demand "just feed and house us, we don't want to work". When they are told they need health care, hygiene, and birth control, they scream "stay out of our lives, our traditions, and our faith".  At the same time, a huge number of "humanitarian organizations" and local authorities of countries "in need of help" are just corrupt feeding troughs for tens and hundreds of thousands of thieves of OUR money, which supposedly goes to "help poor countries"

That so called aid simply fucks poor third world countries even more. As it is just enough to survive and breed more poor workers. I have been around since 1957. The world had enough people in 1967 about 2.7 billion was more than enough. Rather than make better use of resources the rich and powerful simply helped more poor people to be born. So they could rip them off and discard them when done.

[bisdak40]

What do you think that makes a country powerful? Is it the country 's military or her economy or her currency.

Neither!
Its people!
They are running the economy, serving in the army, and strengthening the currency!
Everything else is just a result of the population decision, you will not have a healthy economy with a lazy and corrupt population, you will not have a great army with a country of cowards and you for sure won't have a currency that is better than toilet paper with those either.
And before anyone says something about the ones ruling their country, they are too the reflection of what the population wants.

I agree with you. The people and their mindset is what will make a country powerful. Just like you said, they will be the ones in various places like the military and the other ministries that will build a strong economy and powerful government. Lazy and corrupt people will end up making a country very weak in all aspects.

I agree that people make the country powerful and with a good leader who will lead the people they can improve the factors to be a great country like the economic strength, technology, military, and political influence, and without corruption and the people's help I can say that they will achieve to be a great country

[Penlex_Writer]

What do you think that makes a country powerful? Is it the country 's military or her economy or her currency.

Neither!
Its people!
They are running the economy, serving in the army, and strengthening the currency!
Everything else is just a result of the population decision, you will not have a healthy economy with a lazy and corrupt population, you will not have a great army with a country of cowards and you for sure won't have a currency that is better than toilet paper with those either.
And before anyone says something about the ones ruling their country, they are too the reflection of what the population wants.

I agree with you. The people and their mindset is what will make a country powerful. Just like you said, they will be the ones in various places like the military and the other ministries that will build a strong economy and powerful government. Lazy and corrupt people will end up making a country very weak in all aspects.

I agree that people make the country powerful and with a good leader who will lead the people they can improve the factors to be a great country like the economic strength, technology, military, and political influence, and without corruption and the people's help I can say that they will achieve to be a great country

Without a doubt, leadership is important in driving a country's development; however, at the global level, people consider population, technology, military might, economy, and currency as elements of power. A country might not have a good leadership but as long as these variables are visible such a country will be regarded as powerful because it will be dreadful to other countries.

Furthermore, countries that provide foreign aid to other countries are regarded as powerful because the countries that receive aid will remain indebted to them, which becomes a source of power.

[bitterguy28]

I said let me bring this up here, as though it is a topic that has been discussed in the other forum, last year or two, because I
We know that powerful countries are the ones that is ruling the world, as they are been feared by other countries based on how strong they are. This brings to question of... What do you think that makes a country powerful? Is it the country 's military or her economy or her currency.
Please let's discuss, and give me your reasons.

Combining all of those will make the country most powerful but of course we knew that only few of countries has them all and also they cannot just stand on their own instead will be needing the help of other countries  like?

  - If the country is large then they also needs lots of supply that we are sure they cannot sustain completely .

  - if they have Big militarization then they need also tons of funds to support the guns and ammunition and also those war  equipments .

knowing all of those? then each country needs each others.