How Can You Tell an Empire is Going Down?

https://youtu.be/wQQZkKp1IEI?si=vewOaYopalGAtlBJ

Barbarians at the gate

I watched one historian give a talk

About the decline of every empire in the past

The seasons they go through

To reach something new

The Roman Empire didn’t expire

It retreated across the Bosphorus Straits and stuck around for a few centuries more

And built walls around the Vatican and became the Church

The Rise and Fall of an Empire

The historian pointed out the stages

And lined them up with the Ottomans

The French, and British and Germans

He pointed to the map and highlighted the timelines and dove into supporting evidence

He had a theory

And showed the list

The US Empire, rising up after World War II, is in decline

According to him

It made sense, if you believe a fact in one instance can indicate a fact in another place

Another case

He talked about economy, and role in the world, and inflation and the dollar