You will never be a real superpower.
You have no unity, you have no allies, you have no resources. You are a fake homogeneous population united only because a piece of paper says so, twisted in a crude mockery of the definition of a Nation State.
All the "validation" you get from other countries is just out of convenience. Your "supporters" actually support the CCP behind your back, laughing at your bloated paper tiger military behind closed doors.
Europeans are utterly repulsed by you. Hundreds of years of race riots and fracturing of your empire have allowed other europeans to know you're not in any way united. Even Republics who "pass" as a nation have to lie about how good they are doing. Your 1st world status is nonexistant and is a dead giveaway to how much you rely on us. Even if you manage to get a drunk diplomat to believe you are something to be reckoned with, he'll turn and bail the second he sees your "model citizen" eating high fructose corn syrup Mcdonalds.
You will never be civilized. You wrench out a fake report to the UN every year, telling yourself "we're doing ok!" But deep inside you you know your country won't last long.
Eventually, it will be too much to bear. Your shitty dams will break, flood the crappy dry excuses for farms in your country, and you'll once again plunge into another American civil war.
The UN will find you, heartbroken but also relieved they don't have to deal with your faggy diplomats. They'll bury your files in the archives in the "rogue state" section, and every passerby for the rest of eternity will laugh at how your country spent it's entire life trying to look tough.
This is your fate, this is what you chose. There is no turning back.
You will never be a real superpower.