Samozaryadnyastan wrote:Disserbia wrote:Really?
The two stronger states will likely play the smallest of the three against each other until it is eventually destroyed, assimilated or otherwise somehow "loses" Superpower status.
If the whole point of being a Superpower is dominance, a triumvate merely adds a competitor who could ally with your existing competition.
The threshold of 3 seems a little arbitrary and is only like that because after three the world is considered multipolar, but I don't understand why there could not be more than 3 superpowers as per the definition of a superpower. Also isn't the EU the worlds largest economy?