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The contents of the Superpower collapse page were merged into Superpower on 15 March 2024. For the contribution history and "old versions of the redirected page," please see its history; for the discussion at that location, see its talk page.

The contents of the Superpower disengagement page were merged into Superpower on 11 May 2024. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected page, please see its history; for the discussion at that location, see its talk page.

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On 7 June 2024, it was proposed that this article be moved to Superpower (politics). The result of the discussion was no consensus.

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.

Someone edited the part about emerging superpowers and decided to delete informations about Brazil and the image showing potential superpowers was substituted without any discussion about it. Personal feelings are not determinants in XIV, at least it shouldn’t be.

Following the merge of superpower collapse and superpower disengagement, I believe the page Potential superpower could be merged into superpower. I don't believe there is enough difference to justify the two distinct pages. Merging them would improve the main superpower page significantly. The content can be put into the existing section of the same name. GeogSage 22:35, 13 May 2024 (UTC)※

Support. There's no reason to have two separate articles on basically the same subject. It dilutes editor efforts and results in lower quality articles. Thenightaway (talk) 23:18, 13 May 2024 (UTC)※

Oppose - Unless you're also suggesting large-scales reductions in detail the merged article is likely to be too long to be easily navigable. Rambling Rambler (talk) 13:15, 1 June 2024 (UTC)※

Comment- If the merge is accepted, I would encourage any editor to help boil down the merged section to remove redundant information and keep the page navigable. GeogSage 02:20, 8 June 2024 (UTC)※

• Oppose Vastly different topics. REDISCOVERBHARAT (talk) 07:15, 17 June 2024 (UTC)※

• Support, Upon inspection, both articles may cover different information, but there are some similarities. WP:OVERLAP may have to do with this.

148.222.132.74 (talk) 03:03, 8 July 2024 (UTC)※