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re: Seriously how is it going to play out with the US national debt?
Posted on 2/9/18 at 8:04 pm to crazy4lsu
Posted on 2/9/18 at 8:04 pm to crazy4lsu
The fall of damn near every major empire in history. Rome. France. Russia. Persia. Incas. Aztecs.
When the system that supported it collapses, bloodshed follows.
When the system that supported it collapses, bloodshed follows.
Posted on 2/9/18 at 8:10 pm to fr33manator
With 11 Nuclear Aircraft Carriers, no other country rivals us or can call us on the debt.
We’re most likely to collapse within, I feel sorry for liberals . They’ll be the first to go!
We’re most likely to collapse within, I feel sorry for liberals . They’ll be the first to go!
Posted on 2/9/18 at 8:26 pm to fr33manator
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The fall of damn near every major empire in history. Rome. France. Russia. Persia. Incas. Aztecs.
The fall of each of those is complicated, and is an easy way to write off those complications in service to your point. Save for the Incas and Aztecs, where the conquest was heavily augmented by disease, which had a greater effect on the death toll than the Spanish conquest alone, the average person would have been insulated from a complete collapse by virtue of how most people lived; in villages tending to agriculture. In the Roman example, the imperial structure continued under the Odoacer and other Ostrogoth rulers for some time, not to mention the East. Even during the sack of Rome in 410, most inhabitants were spared, and many buildings remained intact, though stripped of valuables.
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When the system that supported it collapses, bloodshed follows.
This assumes that there were times that were relatively peaceful, and given the relatively endemic amount of warfare that characterized human history until the post-war period, I'm not sure suggesting "bloodshed" follows a supposed collapse is very accurate. There was plenty of bloodshed before the "system" was erected, when the system was in place, and after it fell.
This post was edited on 2/9/18 at 8:27 pm
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