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>>15569
The Russian Federation and the United States of America, as imperial forces extremely parallel to the past Roman Empire (as well as the French Empire, Ottoman Empire, the Persian Empire, and other such entities), can't truly collapse in the traditional sense.

This is because both cultures don't just contain massive amounts of nuclear weapons but that the regular American people as well as the regular Russian people don't have the psychological barrier to using atomic bombs on victims that other societies do.

As evidence, I'd point to the dual nukes used on Japan during World War Two by the Americans as well as the repeated instances during the 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, and 2020s in which key figures in the Russian government forward deployed tactical nuclear weapons in territories such as Chechnya.

It's also worth noting that the Russian Federation and the United States of America are the two countries with the largest neo-fascist and neo-Nazi movements in the world per capita, when one looks at world politics as whole.

Whatever one makes of this ethically and morally is up to you, but I think that all of the above is clearly true as objective reporting of the facts.

About as stupid yet self righteous as I expected. Virtually everything factual is either wrong, ambiguous, or misleading, and the quotes used for authority are out of context.

At least do Oswald Spengler, cowards.

>>15569
>>15570
I'd also like to remark for a bit that the major causes of decline for an Empire throughout history were economic collapse as a result of these three fundamental things:

>A)A runaway debasement of regular currency such that inflation has basically destroyed a regular person's psychological trust in the financial system.

>B)Extreme growth in the wealth of those politically connected mean that an elite class of government-x-business types are so removed from most people that they're basically another biological species, like putting rabbits up against foxes or lions up against gazelle.

>C)A systemic abandonment of budgetary policy such that government spending, government debt, and government deficits become infinite factors that're charged with somehow growing forever.

Now while Donald Trump supporters love all of these things and are fighting nail, tooth, and claw for them to occur, and while other conservative as well as general right-wing movements across the Earth are likewise doing so, I don't believe that these three trends appeal to most regular people. Especially since they're so obviously against the rational self-interests of these individuals.

If, in America, the Republicans succeed in adopting infinite debt, infinite deficits, and infinite spending, then this would be against not just the general will of the people but basically all groups within the U.S.

I'll also like to say, as delicately as I can put it, that even if the political right-wing seeks to maintain power and authority in a "or else" and "by any means necessary" level that it's not as if raw state power alone on the behalf of runaway inflation can't be fought back by an armed populace.