No nation or empire historically has lasted that long as there were always barbarians or hordes of invaders looking to loot the granaries and defile the monuments that civilized folks filled and built.
The slow process of destroying our way of life and western civilization as we know it today is being accomplished by attacking us from many angles simultaneously... and in most cases, with help form within.
Nothing that surprising about it , really, imo.
the sad part of it is that those sworn to do us proud are just doing us ... and that's about it.
Very well put.
Sadly so.