In three weeks, Donald Trump has imploded whatever positive image the United States might have had internationally.

  • pachrist@lemmy.world
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    30 days ago

    I feel like saying it’s normal for empires to fall due to external causes is not accurate? It’s usually the exception. Maybe the external factor is the final kick, knocking over a rotting house of cards, but the cause is almost always division, internal conflict, or unsustainable growth. An empire is much more likely to collapse under its own weight than it is to have Alexander the Great kick its teeth in. The Ottoman Empire was called “The Sick Man of Europe” for a reason.

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      29 days ago

      LOL empire. They haven’t lasted for even a century. It will be a footnote in history.

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              29 days ago

              Well then, enlighten me and tell me exactly from when to when you consider them an empire?

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                29 days ago

                Probably from the moment of our emancipation from England. Occupied more territory than most European states ever had at that moment.

                If you want to be pedantic about it how about when we occupied the width of an entire contenant? September 9th 1850

                We didn’t spring fully formed from Zeus’s forehead to fund the destruction of the Reich.

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                  29 days ago

                  from the moment of our emancipation from England.

                  I was asking from what year, decade even to what year. This is as vague as it gets. If I wanted to be pedantic I would ask what a “contenant” is. That date you mention is about California? I think you don’t get what being an empire means. It’s not having a really big country.