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Paul Kennedy posits that continued deficit spending, especially on military build-up, is the single most important reason for decline of any great power. The costs of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were as of 2017 estimated to run as high as $4.4 trillion, which Kennedy deems a major victory for Osama bin Laden, whose announced goal was to humiliate America by showcasing its casualty ...
Robert Kiyosaki warns the S&P 500 is 'about to crash by 70%' — compares the US economy to the fall of ancient Rome and says 'stupidity repeats.' ... At the same time America’s debt is the ...
The current U.S. economy does share some similarities to Rome’s situation prior to the empire’s fall. Mitchell says the major economic problem Rome faced was its precious metal-based currency.
Todd attracted attention in 1976 when, aged 25, he predicted the fall of the Soviet Union based on indicators such as increasing infant mortality rates. In the late 1970s, Todd was widely pronounced an "anti-communist", just as, following the publication of After the Empire, he has been attacked as "anti-American".
Like the proconsuls of Rome they were supposed to bring order and law to the unruly and anarchical world." [248] In September 2000, Washington Post reporter Dana Priest published a series of articles whose central premise was Combatant Commanders' inordinate amount of political influence within the countries in their areas of responsibility ...
The fall of Rome in 476 is a historical turning point that was invented nearly 50 years later as a pretext for a devastating war. In September of 476 AD, the barbarian commander Odoacer forced the ...
Reenactment of a Viking landing in L'Anse aux Meadows. Pre-Columbian transoceanic contact theories are speculative theories which propose that visits to the Americas, interactions with the Indigenous peoples of the Americas, or both, were made by people from elsewhere prior to Christopher Columbus's first voyage to the Caribbean in 1492. [1]
A TikTok with over 1 billion views argues that men think about the Roman empire a lot—and gloomy billionaires are no exception.