I always laugh at foreigners who pronounce that Americans are stupid. I tell them "It must be the most frustrating thing in the world for you to know that a nation full of stupid people runs the world while your country full of geniuses is so insignificant." Then you sit back and watch their heads explode.
Good point. If all it took was population numbers or land mass,the soviet Union would have won the Cold War or India would rule the world-you'd think that the rest of the world would think that it's in their own interest,that if there must be a superpower,and there must,that better the US than Red China. I never saw such a good example of cutting off your nose to spite your face.