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American overseas military map graphic - Should be altered?

The graphic overstates the extend of American military hegemony. For instance, Brazil is colored - but there are only 27 military personnel stationed there, which is more of a diplomatic or training mission than a superpower projection.

I think the map should only highlight countries with at least 100, or 500, or 1000 stationed personnel.

I'm getting the numbers from this German media report which details personnel numbers across the world: https://kritisches-netzwerk.de/sites/default/files/us_department_of_defense_-_base_structure_report_fiscal_year_2015_baseline_-_as_of_30_sept_2014_-_a_summary_of_the_real_property_inventory_-_206_pages.pdf

I propose that Honduras, Brazil, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Bulgaria, Greece, Philippines, and Australia should not be colored on the map due to low personnel sizes based on the figures in the aforementioned report.

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China China is now more powerful than the United States. (86.140.123.49 (talk) 13:23, 11 August 2020 (UTC)) China is finally acknowledged as an emerging Second Superpower in 2021. That's a huge upgrade from 2007, 2011, and 2016 when I last visited this Misplaced Pages page on Superpower nations. Whether China vs. US should be relegated to early 2000's internet flame-war threads, not Misplaced Pages.Rwat128 (talk) 03:23, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

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China is now more powerful than the United States. (86.140.123.49 (talk) 13:23, 11 August 2020 (UTC))

China is finally acknowledged as an emerging Second Superpower in 2021. That's a huge upgrade from 2007, 2011, and 2016 when I last visited this Misplaced Pages page on Superpower nations. Whether China vs. US should be relegated to early 2000's internet flame-war threads, not Misplaced Pages.Rwat128 (talk) 03:23, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

Colour of neutral nations on Cold War allies map

The colour of neutral nations on the map is a light blue, but the NATO nations/allies are also blue. This could suggest that the neutral nations could be NATO allies. I suggest that neutral nations be coloured white on the map, to show their independence fron either side. Penumbra01 (talk) 14:44, 3 September 2020 (UTC)

British Empire/China

The table comparing the United States and the Soviet Union should be moved from the Cold War section and expanded to explain how the British Empire fulfilled the criteria of superpower status until the Suez Crisis and how China presently does. BfFwG6A8 (talk) 15:20, 20 December 2020 (UTC)

And France since 1945- Suez Crisis?

United Kingdom

In the table explaining how the United States and the Soviet Union met the criteria of being superpowers during the Cold War, the United Kingdom should be added, as it was also a superpower until the aftermath of the Suez Crisis in 1956. A6MKi-43 (talk) 22:23, 6 January 2021 (UTC)

The UK had ceased to be a superpower by the 1930s. (86.140.123.111 (talk) 09:11, 13 April 2021 (UTC))

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