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[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't know if he's the most powerful leader in the world (after all, another leader tells him what to do) but he does sit on the most expensive military and one of the largest economies.

[–] white_nrdy@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago

I would argue that that would put him in the running for "most powerful". If for no other reason, he's very powerful since he can destroy a lot of the world if he wants to...

"The power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it" ~Frank Herbert, Dune