He called the United States "the Monster", because he feared the power of the Nation.
National power is understood as the sum of all resources available to a nation in order to pursuit national objectives. Assessing the national power of political entities was already a matter of relevance during the classical antiquity, the middle ages and the renaissance and today.
National Power of a nation is relies on several factors which all together are called the components or elements or determinants of national power.
