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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En réponse à @ChrisWarcraft
Rome fell hard in retrospect, but the people living then didn’t necessarily notice anything; more like a slow fade. Temporal distance makes things seem more sudden. (Also: USSR was fairly dramatic + had nukes?)
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En réponse à @atmz @ChrisWarcraft
Also https://itunes.apple.com/us/course/early-middle-ages/id519131977 … has some interesting lectures around the fall of Rome which may be relevant today
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En réponse à @atmz @ChrisWarcraft
Sooo my Twitter app didn’t load any replies so I thought nobody else had chimed in here; sorry about my redundant “well, actually”
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En réponse à @atmz
No worries :) And I would counter with the USSR not being what we would consider a true empire - they had vast geopolitical influence, but were far more concerned with countering American expansion/continuing their own local expansion.
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(We were also one signals officer away from the USSR launching all their nukes at us)
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