I calculated great power status based on GDP per capita, population, military expenditure, GDP, and surface area. I calculated the percentile of those 5 variables and averaged them out to get a great power score of each country.
The top 10 countries are, along with marking the indicators they fall short of 90% on:
- The United States, 0.98
- Canada, 0.91, population
- China, 0.895, GDP per capita
- Australia, 0.89, population
- Brazil, 0.881, GDP per capita, military expenditure
- Russia, 0.88, GDP per capita
- Japan, 0.870, GDP per capita, surface area
- France, 0.866, Population, GDP per capita, surface area
- Germany, 0.866, surface area
- Mexico, 0.851, GDP per capita, military expenditure
7 of these countries have mutual protection pacts with the United States.
What gets more interesting is if we then filter out these countries which have left-wing leaders and we clearly get our answer that Macron is currently the standard bearer for NATO.
The US is led by Trump, Canada just got a new Prime Minister, Germany just elected a new right-wing chancellor, leaving France as the most powerful NATO country with a left-of-center prime minister who can speak for the alliance with credibility.
We cannot give up. We will win. Trump will not succeed in dividing us. We stand with our democratic allies around the world.