super power of germany
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Germany was superpower only once in its history when it was Nazi Germany. Today it is certainly not superpower and IMO it doesn’t have what is needed for a country to become a superpower.
It’s the biggest economy in Europe (GDP 3.47 trillion$) , but nothing close to the Chinese (14 trillion) or American (21 trillion) economies size. The average growing rate of German economy (~0.5%) is much slower than the American one (average ~2.5%) and certainly than the Chinese one (~9.6%).
In terms of military, German military lack any capability of superpower. They have no nukes, no missiles, no nuclear submarines, no aircraft carriers. The German army budget is 39 billion $ compared with 61 billion for Russia, 230 billion for China and 602 billion for the US. The German army is not even the strongest in the EU. The British army and potentially the French army too are stronger than the German one, and they are both not superpowers.
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