Great empires fall when they lack the ability to maintain their own complexity.

Considering the use case of GLP; I'd say so.

The world is a different place for the "elite" than the common person, they see things differently.

The common person is bound by factors they don't understand, from home market bias to sentimental feelings about people and places.

There's really only one difference between the "elite" and ordinary people. That difference is freedom; real freedom... Freedom which is granted by a lack of attachment to things, people or other non transferable items.

When you have a house is Nice, Singapore or Boston. You quickly realize that people are generally the same everywhere you go and with commonalities you can integrate with any society with simply using their language or interpreters.

Nationalists believe in the exceptionalism of their nation as being the cause of their success, whereas globalists know the game of Empire has graced the nationalist's nation and the trade of the Empire greatly inflated the nation's coffers.

Empires are like a woman. You can never permanently own the woman, you can simply enjoy her while she is yours.

The globalist's freedom to vacate a nation for a new nation, means their adaptability in maintaining their status of privilege in the Empire remains theirs.

The wealthy Romans left Rome for Spain, the wealthy Spaniards went to Portugal. The wealthy Portuguese left for England and the wealthy English left for or had subsidiaries in America.

Yeah I guess the cycle includes an outside force that controls all your media and finances and that doesnt influence the outcome at all, lol wake up, its a controlled demolition of America

Dark times are coming for the world, specially when there is no usa to protect the free world.

What we are witnessing today is the same reason Rome fell, its a cycle and all civilizations follow it.

Mob rule takes over and she crumbles from the inside.

USA is not protecting the world. USA is threatening every other countries to submit to USA agenda. Everything USA did to this world is to make USA agenda benefits from it.

The idea that USA is protecting the world is the propaganda the elites programmed into the sheeple Americans to make the sheeples feel great for doing supposedly "good cause" while the elites use the supports of the sheeples to ravage the world for their own economic and power interest.

USA is not protecting the world. USA is threatening every other countries to submit to USA agenda. Everything USA did to this world is to make USA agenda benefits from it.

The idea that USA is protecting the world is the propaganda the elites programmed into the sheeple Americans to make the sheeples feel great for doing supposedly "good cause" while the elites use the supports of the sheeples to ravage the world for their own economic and power interest.

Look at our legal code -- it is Byzantine in its complexity.

Yeah, we took a simple brilliant idea (our form of government) and fucked it all up with bad laws and an activist judiciary out of control lately.

Ok really, go tell that to the people of Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Japan, Ukraine, Poland, and Georgia.

"Lawyers are plants that will grow in any soil that is cultivated by the hands of others, and when once they have taken root they will extinguish every vegetable that grows around them. ...... The most bungling, the most ignorant member of that profession will, if placed in the most obscure part of the country, promote litigousness and amass more wealth than the most opulent farmer with all his toil.

What a pity that our forefathers who happily extinguished so many fatal customs and expunged fron their new government so many errors and abuses both religious and civil, did not also prevent the introduction of a set of men so dangerous ".

H. St. John Crevecoeur - 1787
Letters of an American Farmer

You don't seem to understand that all those countries above that USA is supposedly protecting are encircling China and Russia. USA is not "protecting" them for their welfare, but using them to contain and eventually destroy China and Russia. That's USA's foreign agenda. USA will dump any of them just like Trump would dump the Kurd when they're not needed for USA's agenda.

If those countries are Rwanda with it's Hutu-Tutsi genocide, would USA care to protect them from genocide? No way. Screw them. USA would just waste money and energy saving them and get nothing like destroying China and Russia.

Empires fall during grand solar minimums. Lots of cold cloudy weather, flooding, failed crops, starvation, disease and mass migration to the deep pockets of the empire cities.

What we are witnessing today is the same reason Rome fell, its a cycle and all civilizations follow it.

Mob rule takes over and she crumbles from the inside.

Rome fell because it relied too much on foreign mercenary armies and foreign agents.

Much like the US Military and CIA do today.

Mercenary contractors have no allegiance to the empire, in this case the American empire.

In Rome's case the very mercenaries they hired and trained to protect Rome ended up looting and sacking Rome on multiple occasions.

Oh so China and Russia are such good countries that they have to bully their neighbors, they murder opposition politicians. They murder people for their religious beliefs. No real freedom for their population as well as everything is controlled. They are behind and pay for many atrocities all over the globe. I can go on and on but idiot trolls like yourself are hopeless.

What we are witnessing today is the same reason Rome fell, its a cycle and all civilizations follow it.

Mob rule takes over and she crumbles from the inside.

Stop the bullcrap and those antifa protesters are funded by the CCP

It's actually USA or CIA that pays and pulls the string on most of all atrocities in the world from Indonesia genocide of the supposedly communist party (which was actually murdering many of innocent ordinary citizens who knew nothing about the communist) to the color revolution or arab spring. You are a typically elite-brainwashed to worship America's supposed moral high ground while the Elites are inflicting evil atrocities around the world.

As if swallowing the west MSM propaganda that Russia and China murder it's own people justifies USA's atrocities. You can't even see how biased you are with your supposedly patriotic belief that America is a beacon of freedom on the hill crap.

Seriously who are you trying to fool? First we had the Soviet Union that was swallowing all neighboring countries into it's communist control, it was going after Europe as well, that's why NATO was created to protect all countries that didn't want to become part of the Soviet Union communism.
Then the CCP which has ties to many evil dictators around the world. Has stolen trillions in unfair trade. Bullies it's neighbors, doesn't allow Hong Kong to be free. Bribes politicians in the USA to do its bidding like NAFTA. I can go on and on but I guess it's hopeless for people like you.

What we are witnessing today is the same reason Rome fell, its a cycle and all civilizations follow it.

Mob rule takes over and she crumbles from the inside.

What we are witnessing today is the same reason Rome fell, its a cycle and all civilizations follow it.

Mob rule takes over and she crumbles from the inside.

I'm not sure anything can fix the convoluted knot we're in, culturally, financially, and in any other way you can imagine.

Too the elite who play the long game, we were a one shot rifle with unerring accuracy, quickly discarded.

The blood of innocents the whites spilled across it cursed it to them forever. Nothing good will ever come to them here, no peace, no contentment.