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 Hi, and thanks for the invitation. (Let me ponder my wiki-plate:) ... THE PROBLEM we face here is the way the media throws around the word ""superpower"" per category of influence  see the article in The Economist they cited: ""An economic superpower, and now oil too"". ""Superpower"" isn't the magic word it used to be. ) The other issue is, of course, the word ""potential"" ... In infinite time, anything is possible, ""potentially."" 

 NOTE: Breaking that section out as a separate article is really the heart of the problem. Once you get away from the page which attempts to clarify what ""superpower"" means, it's harder to argue against, e.g., prestigious magazine headlines.... (But will ponder what to do about this.)   "