Great nations are rarely destroyed in the way Hollywood imagines. Most people still think empires collapse under missile strikes, invasions, assassinations, revolutions, or dramatic military defeats broadcast live across television screens. History, however, tells a colder and far more disturbing story. The strongest civilizations usually begin dying financially long before the population realizes anything irreversible has started. Military decline only becomes visible later, after the economic foundations supporting the empire have already begun cracking underneath the surface. Rome did not suddenly wake up one morning and discover…
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