About superpower

People don't understand that, but for me this is very definition of "superpower".

It has "special relation" with virtually every country. Which makes it ridiculous. On many occasions bilateral agreements depends only on personal connections between leaders.

For example. There are two countries in Western Africa, which were bloody awful some years and now its governments has improved greatly: Togo and Liberia.

US foreign assistance for Liberia is regularly above $200m a year. It's less than $0.2m for Togo. There is absolutely no merits in this. It's Togo, which has better rule of law of these two.

There are "special relation" with France or UK too, of course. USA is amazing in its refusal to accept any super-national cooperation. Doesn't matter is it convention about women's rights or biodiversity. you can always expect that USA won't ratify it.

Same history was with USSR, but it has disappeared. Having two superpowers was awful, but having no superpowers would be better.