When Rome fell, it fell *hard*. Most empires do the same (British Empire is one of the very few exceptions), and none of them had nukes. Technology changes. Human nature doesn't.https://twitter.com/csubagio/status/1002325580392456193 …
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(We were also one signals officer away from the USSR launching all their nukes at us)
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Fair; I think there’s an interesting tangent here about whether the length of an empire affects the impact of its collapse —feels like the relative newness of the USSR made its collapse more recoverable.
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Yeah, I think that's a salient point. There's not enough time for institutions to be built up into "that's how it's always been" structures, and the concomitant devotion to such.
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