WTAF“When the Roman Empire fell, it was largely as a result of uncontrolled immigration. The empire could no longer control its borders, people came in…and Europe went into a dark ages that lasted a very long time. The point is that it can happen again”pic.twitter.com/og7UP5jJck— Dan Hicks (@profdanhicks) October 31, 2021
Ah, but they couldn't, mostly because they had been doing excessive spending at home in order to maintain their political facades ( a.k.a. domination of the local political scene) and that with a good dose of racism (culturalism?) prevented them from scaling down at the core to maintain actual material domination.
You see, the biggest problem is they didn't have modern industry and thus realized that money is fake.
Large immigration is a funny way of saying over ran by Germanic tribes
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Ah, but they couldn't, mostly because they had been doing excessive spending at home in order to maintain their political facades ( a.k.a. domination of the local political scene) and that with a good dose of racism (culturalism?) prevented them from scaling down at the core to maintain actual material domination.
You see, the biggest problem is they didn't have modern industry and thus realized that money is fake.
"Make sure you always pay your soldiers" seems to be one of the most timeless pieces of advice for rulers.