Someone tell the EU that the Romans had their own army, and didn't have to depend on someone else to defend their sorry backsides.
The European Union is poised to overtake America to become the premier superpower,...
It's kind of hard to be a superpower when you grab your ankles every time you get in trouble.
Well actually towards the end of the empire they did. In fact it was largely because there were so few Italians in the armies that the Empire lost it's stability and fragmented into smaller territorial militarily governorships controlled by local armies who were only nominally Roman and under foreign command. e.g. The titles of the medieval nobility for the most part come from military ranks of the Roman allied armies.