United States Resources

Commentary by Dr. Gerhard Falk

        

The Greatest Country on This Earth

The superiority of the United States is mainly related to our good fortune consisting of an unusual amount of productive acerage and our great oil resources. The population of this country is about 340 million. Two countries in the world have a greater population. China has 1.4 billion people and India has a similar population size. Both countries need to feed that many people with far less arable land per person.  The USA has 389.89 million acres of arable, food producing land. China, with a population of 1.394 billion inhabitants, has only 292.5 million acres of productive land. Russia, despite its immense size, has only 145 million people living on 300.5 million food producing acres.  India, with 1.426 billion people, has 358.6 million acres of farmable land.

The Chinese military dictators spend huge amounts of money on the military while neglecting an underfed population. It is remarkable that the Ukraine has 81.4, million arable acres of arable land which makes the Ukraine, with a far smaller population than that of Russia, exceedingly fertile.

The United States has one more advantage over all other countries and that is our oil production.  Industrial production is yet another feature of American superiority worldwide. Indeed , Saudi Arabia produces nine million barrels of oil per day and the United States produces only eight million barrels of oil per day. However, Saudi exports almost all of its oil while the United States has a very large industrial capacity with a huge number of factories and other resources not known to anyone else. American industries have invested heavily in China, whose population earns far less than American workers. This allows China to take advantage of American inventions and discoveries without needing to produce industrial products at the American level. American factories are helping China to threaten American capacity, both militarily and commercially. The fact is that China is only a threat to the USA as long as American industries support the Chinese dictatorship.

Here are two tables illustrating the reason for American superiority.

The Five Countries with the Most Arable Land

Rank / Country / Population / Arable Land

1 / India / 1.426B / 385.6M

2 / US / 340M / 369.8M

3 / Russia / 144.5M / 300.6M

4 / China / 1.393B / 292.5M

5 / Brazil / 205M / 137.8M

This chart shows that China has a population far greater than that of the USA with a good deal less arable land available for food production.

Millions of Barrels of Oil Produced Per Day

Saudi Arabia / 9

United States / 8

Russia / 8

Canada / 2

Saudi Arabia produces more oil each day than any other country.  However, Saudi has little industry and therefore exports almost all its oil.

Shalom u'vracha.

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