Posted on 09/18/2024 8:55:37 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
It is a common historical myth that Rome fell in 476 A.D. after Odoacer, King of the Goths, sacked the capital city and forced Romulus Augustus to abdicate his throne.
The historical reality is rather different. Over the course of nearly a century, Germanic tribes – fleeing everything from war, famine and tribal politics – moved, unimpeded, into Roman territory. And the Empire died not by traditional invasion but by unchecked mass migration.
During this period, Rome was ruled by a disaffected elite. Rather than send out a legion or two to kick some culus and take nomen, they decided it would be easier and cheaper to just wave them in and grant them citizenship. In return for citizenship and farmland, entire clans of Angles, Burgundians, Franks, Ostrogoths, Vandals and Visigoths agreed to serve in Rome’s military forces. The fact that this upended centuries of Roman law and practice regarding citizenship didn’t cause the upper echelons of Roman society to get their subligaculum in a bunch. They figured, now that the barbares were citizens, they’d just start acting like Romans.
That was overly optimistic thinking on the part of the Romans. Assimilation tends to occur when people enter a new culture, in small numbers, and experience social pressure to blend into their new communities. Assimilation tends to make it easier to get along in one’s newly adopted homeland because it eliminates barriers to economic success, like being unable to speak the local lingua franca.
But Rome admitted too many Germanic tribesmen, too quickly. Suddenly Rome’s elite found themselves trying to persuade guys with names like Giselric the Plunderer or Hairuwulf the Skull-Crusher to slap on a toga and eat stuffed grape leaves while daintily reclining on a Roman lounge chair. As you may have guessed, that didn’t work out so well.
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China/Taiwan is very analogous to Russia/Ukraine.
They share a common language, history and culture, divided by 20th century Marxist politics
25% of people actively dislike China
50% do not care and simply want to be left alone in peace
25% want to re-unite with China.
If/When the relative power of the USA declines, Taiwan will simply fall into China's waiting arms, without a fight. its why China is playing the long game on this.
Do you think that is the future of the US military if Trump loses?
I read Gibbon’s Fall of the Roman Empire many years ago and he went on in detail how inflation was a root cause of the fall. I was lazy today and just googled it.
What set the American military on the path of self deconstruction and will continue it on that path was accepting females, it was not the age old practice of accepting some new male immigrants.
The females naturally started making over military life into a female friendly life and place of employment which has already ended all the standards and requirements and warrior culture and is morphing it into merely another federal job.
The females naturally started making over military life into a female friendly life and place of employment which has already ended all the standards and requirements and warrior culture and is morphing it into merely another federal job.
There is a reason the natural birth rate is 106 males to 100 females.It’s the war increment. Females in the military screws everything up.
Yes, the illusion. Those at the top running things know its impossible to achieve their stated goals. So they can always stay in power as the elite inner party, living like kings because they deserve it for “ushering in” communism.
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