(October 17, 2020 at 3:58 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(October 17, 2020 at 6:39 am)WinterHold Wrote: America is a global empire: that's the path it had chosen for itself.
And global empires affect all the regions it controls.
My region happens to be one of the most important places America took control of; for 80 years my region is the backyard of the American empire.
So we are essential and important to the U.S because -unlike other empires- it actually chose to keep my region under its wing.
Read about Rome: the expansions of Rome in the regions of the Barbarians brought its end.
If Rome was fair with the Barbarians; things maybe would've differed for it.
America is the modern Rome. And it's in deep shit right now because:
1-it either becomes fair with the Barbarians (Arabs and Muslims)
2-it keeps controlling the Barbarians with a fist of steel (like Biden wants) [Western Roman Empire]
3-it runs away (like Trump wants) [Eastern Roman Empire]
Choice 2,3 will make America collapse.
But the collapse always starts with the choice of how to deal with the Barbarian issue -aka foreign policy-. Rome didn't survive that choice. I think America won't survive it too.
But you must care.
You need a history lesson. The barbarians didn’t destroy Rome, Rome destroyed Rome.
Boru
Choice 2 -in red- led to the Western empire's demise.
Choice 3 -in blue- led to the Eastern empire's demise.
History repeats itself; please read the OP and the posts more carefully to understand.
