Will Germany rise up and be a superpower again in the future?

[WIHS2006]

Being a superpower requires a large military force capable of independent external operations which no European nation, except for perhaps the UK, currently has the capability to do. And there are even doubts over whether the UK can truly perform independently ... say if Argentina were to invade the Falkland Islands - which of course, is why the current UK strategy revolves around making sure they don't fall in the first place.

In other words, until Europeans wake up from their post 1945 slumber and stop devoting 99% of their budget to their welfare systems they will continue to be irrelevant, and led by pathetic wimps who appease dictators, terrorists, and tyrants because they cannot meet force with force.

[VillaD_Rock]

It is possible for a small country with a smaller population to be a superpower in the future. There is the second economy. robots replace humans. Robots will get more intelligent every decade. Countries with huge population will have millions of useless workforce which will be a big problem. So countries with a small population could mass produce workers instead to wait 18 years for new workers. Than there is the resources of big countries. We don't know the possibilities of Nanotechnology or other technologies. Maybe its possible to make food and materials from trash or mud. Fusion power could also make oil and gas obsolete. So a small country can be a Superpower again.

[Old Gringo]

Not in the foreseeable future.

I think the Germans are tired of losing wars and are quite content to be a prosperous center within the EU. Life is pretty good for Germans these days. It was a long road back after WWII.

[VillaD_Rock]

Tired of loosing wars? Then why do they have such a weak military who could't even defend the country, especially whats going on with the Ukraine crisis. The allies forbid Germany to have a strong military and they always throw ww2 and the holocaust in their throat that today germans are the most anti war people in the world. And what happened in the last 10 years. Nato is crying that Germany is so anti war, Poland cry that the german military is so weak. Now they want a strong german military. You can't have both. It's incredible dangerous what the allies had done.