The United States has been a global power since late in the 19th century.
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American power worldwide is at its historic zenith.
American power remains today what it was in the Second World War and the Cold War: the greatest force for freedom in the world.
If the U.S. became the undisputed superpower that it is today, it was primarily because of its technology, whether it is in transportation, agriculture, high-tech industry, medicine, etc.
The U.S. has intervened more often in more countries farther from its own shores than has any power in modern history.
Well, in 1947... in Europe and in Italy especially, we thought of America as all-powerful.
The United States is a superpower whose influence reaches across oceans and beyond borders.
Britain kept its position as the dominant world power well into the 20th century despite steady decline. By the end of World War II, dominance had shifted decisively into the hands of the upstart across the sea, the United States, by far the most powerful and wealthy society in world history.
It is a cliche these days to observe that the United States now possesses a global empire - different from Britain's and Rome's but an empire nonetheless.
The uniqueness of the United States in human history is the United States is the first global power in human history which emerged far away from Africa or Asia, which is the main land of human history.
With the rise of America, the global balance of power shifted away from the old European powers.
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