[Who is John Galt?]

To get rid of Hannibal after years of stalemate, Rome went to Carthage and the rest is history.

Yeah, but I think I've read that the Carthaginians were suffering a shortage of something the Russians have in quantity - might have been morozhenoe, or vodka, or maybe it was nuclear weapons...

[marcusmaximus]

Hannibal never captured Rome. Just like Russia never captured Kyiv. Or any other regional capitals in Ukraine.