Snake Featherston
Banned
To be frank, I think this is a key example of why global projection should not be rated too highly when considering Great Power status. If a state such as Germany can be considered the strongest individual state in Europe, but lacks global reach, it shouldn't, in my opinion, be considered secondary to official Great Powers, particularly when for a state which exerts global reach, superpower might be a more appropriate term.
Sure, but to me the only difference between a superpower and a Great Power with global reach is that the OTL Great Powers were mostly all reduced by WWII to shadows of themselves. There were only two intact, both of which expanded global reach by default. Before then there were arguably four superpowers: France, the UK, the USA, and the USSR.