• vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
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    3 days ago

    Unless it’s Venice. But those fuckers were weird and survived for a thousand years, also Carthage was destroyed by Rome so add them to the list.

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      Carthage had plenty of internal issues before Rome turned up. Hannibal as actively disliked, they used mercenaries in their wars.

      To be honest Carthage sounds more like modern USA the more I read about them.

      Venice was an outlier and probably would have gone the same way if it weren’t for Napoleon.

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        Just noting that Carthage and Venice were destroyed by outside forces. Sure Carthage would most likely have collapsed or otherwise become a dictatorship a la Rome but who knows maybe they wouldve reformed. As for Venice that’s basically impossible to know, they reformed their government so many times in their history so as to keep power hungry assholes from getting power that who knows what wouldve happened had they survived into the 19th or even 20th century.

        Though regardless I suspect the US may not have even 10 years left in it, hell it may not even have a year left in it if shit hits the fan badly enough.

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          There won’t be a military outside force for America. That will come from economic pressure, it will be a fast moving financial change that the market won’t be able to forecast or adapt to.

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            Oh definitely. Personally I think the current economic and oil crisies is what’s going to collapse the federal government. What happens afterwards is entirely guesswork though.