Rise and Fall of The Roman Empire Timeline | Is The US Following It?

Various pundits have tried to compare the fall of the Roman Empire to the apparent weakening of the U.S.’s position as the world’s lone superpower. Some comparisons between the two “empires” hold up better than others. Some parallels are irrelevant, but others are downright scary. After a brief survey of the various arguments made along the line of “As Rome went, so goes the U.S.”, here...
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