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
Random tangent - I wonder how much of the middle east’s problems can be partially laid at the feet of the British (or even Ottoman) empire collapses; interesting analogy there with how Rome was less affected than outlying provinces by Rome’s collapse..
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En réponse à @atmz
I would answer with - A Lot™. The World Wars also had a large chunk of influence on our modern day issues (particularly carving up areas based on lines on a map and not with respect to the communities actually living there)
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En réponse à @ChrisWarcraft
That whole region, along with the balkans, has a very interesting shift in the first half of the last century to a nationalistic system which never really existed previously — it’s not even “line’s were drawn incorrectly” but “any lines would cause problems” IMO
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En réponse à @atmz @ChrisWarcraft
As an example, see the mess and resulting population exchanges (would be ethnic cleansing today) between Greece and Turkey to make sure the right people were in the right country
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