Parallels between the Roman Empire and the USA 

Parallel #1: Eagles.

Early Romans losing 2848291²² battles: "Our troops have rallied and returned to the battle!" Late Romans after Cassius dies from a Hunnic arrow: "Our troops flee the battlefield! A SHAMEFUR DISPRAY!"

Romans having to remember all the Germanic tribes' names is probably roughly equivalent to us remembering all the Afghani tribes' names, it just doesn't really happen!

So Rome was basically the average EU4 player, Spamming troops until the enemy ran out of manpower

*Pro-Lifers in the modern US: Accused of hating women’s rights, Pro-Lifers in the Roman Empire: Accused of being simps*

That point about the casualties is really eye opening. Nowadays if 100 US soldiers die in a battle it would go down as a military disaster. While in world war 2 the us would lose thousands in a battle to take a strategic island and consider it a win.

Im that exact type of person that would go to a arian neighborhood and scream the father is of the same essence as god.

As a collector of Roman coins from the 3rd century, you can get a clear picture of how quickly the economy failed. From Caracalla to Diocletian the Antoninianus goes from a 48% silver coin weighing around 4.5 grams to a tiny coin of 5% silver (which rubs right off) weighing 3 grams.

I personally find there to be more parallels between the US and the late Roman republic. Some of the most notable ones are increasing instability and deadlock in the legislature, the executive branch gaining more and more power with little accountability and perhaps the most unsettling, the transition from a draft/ levy military to a professional, volunteer standing army, which is of course accompanied by the military having increased power.

It really does highlight how similar humans were centuries ago and how many of our traits and attitudes never really changed but only the topics have. Amazing, huh?

Personally I saw more similarities with the late republic: the senate bettering themselves and their little group in the capital at the expense of land owners. No, it’s not the same I know but it may proceed into an authoritarian regime of some kind…just concerning Edit: you nailed it

Also pride and arrogance, Roman probably think they are the gods chosen people, while American exceptionalism think they world cannot survive without us. This extremely entitlement made them lazy and easily dismiss it's rivals that are becoming strong

"The US lacks soft power" is the kind of affirmation you hear on youtube, understand what the person is trying to say, and you still wanna throw yourself out of a balcony, just the soft power that is dispersed through american culture as movies, books, videosgames and even youtube videos is incomparable with any other country in the world. I as a Brazilian was learning about the american war of independence before any brazilian history because of cartoons... The government may lack soft power, but the country itself HAS IT.

"History Doesn't Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes."

Similarities in a nutshell 1.Political Polarization 2. Tribalism 3. Ignorance of external issues (foreign politics in general) 4 .lack of faith/ineffective military 5. Inflation You can even add Immigration as the Romans find it very hard to even feed Rome itself and even integrated the Germanic tribes. (very poorly I might add)

English is arguably the most dominant language, just like how Latin dominated Europe, and, even in areas where Rome didn't conquer, many people still spoke Latin as an educated language, sort of like how foreign nations who use English for common communication don't actually regularly speak English among their peers.

I feel like romes biggest problem was that after maximinus thrax’s reign, any general with a reasonably sized army could declare themselves imperator and become a usurper, which doesnt really apply to America. Politicians and generals aren’t the same thing in this country, thank the gods.

19:10 Love how as the emperor is pouring out worthless hunks of metal, the Christian is grinning like a kid in the gaming store.

You should also mention about feudalisation. In the late roman empire poor peasants became more and more dependent to rich land owners, which achieved It's peak in middle ages as what we call as serfdom, which was the basic of feudalism. The same thing happening today, but today we are more and more dependent to corporation owners.

The Byzantine Empire WAS THE ROMAN EMPIRE!

One of the best videos ive seen in a long time.

Today's America is much more like Carthage than Rome. Carthage was a breakaway republic from a merchant marine empire (Phonecians) just like America. While the Republican Roman government was mostly an oligarchy of old rich families, citizens could achieve status by military or civil valour. In Carthage, political power was given only to those who had money, regardless of how old the money was, or how it was acquired. Towards its demise, the military became less of a Citizen army and more of a private militia to enforce overseas investments. The Romans took land and made it theirs. They created a foundation for long term colonialism and hegimony. Carthage merely concerned itself with controlling its merchant interests. Personal gain and greed always superceded the greater good. It managed to remain mostly uninvaded, but was eventually milked to death by foreign debt and overseas conflict. Its slow death was the result of gradual attrition and fiscal compromise. Till the day it was destroyed, Carthage still thought it was superior to Rome. In many ways it was. America has not met its Rome yet. But it will.

This is why I get annoyed when people glorify 'Romes Military Tactical Genius'. They literally won battles mainly because they just kept buuilding armies. Hannibal was the real military tactical genius.

Great vid :) Learned a lot of new stuff Tough I think you got it wrong when it came to the Romans and their geographical knowledge,it wasnt a matter of ignorance but more of a dificulty of keeping up with costant changes, when it comes to the Parthians for example, the Sassanids where a noble persian house that took power while the parthian noble houses where fighting eachother,and even then the parthian kings bent over backwards to please their persian subject and copied almost every aspect from persian customs, calling them persians/parthians/sassanids is pretty similar, Khosrow II and Shapur both where pretty sure they where sucessors to the Achaemid empire since they where trying to reconquer it. I do recall reading Zosimus and seing him call the goths that killed Decius Scythians, and that bugged me, but then I realized that the Goths dwelled on the same place the Scythians dwelled while they where in existence, so basically if you where a Roman and a barbarian tribe took over and merged with the barbarian tribe you used to know, perhaps you wouldnt immediatly start calling them Goths and stick with the old name. The barbarian "states" where chaotic and prone to migrations due to pressures from neighbour tribes so with such instability the Romans probably had a dificult time keeping up with all the changes, the Suevi where the biggest menace in Gaul during Caesar's conquest, but then we learn that during the administration of Augustus they where established in Bohemia (near Poland)if im not mistaken , they migrated from northern france to poland,very unstable.

16:30 Notice the squinting zoomer without glasses. Nice detail.

This is gold!! Thank you!!

History repeats itself in different ways: Love the point with the coins! Great job on that video, you must be the coolest history teacher ever.

I think there is 1 more parallel. Roman's in the late empire where much less focused on being good people, good citizens and indulged in pleasure far more. The belive in its history diminishing and values. Americans today I think you can argue are far less then the ones before. In spirit , morals and overall values. Prioritising pleasure and short term goals beyond anything else.

"Iconoclasts" you say. Mic Gordon will be immortalized as our anthem on a dark day we must stop such an event.

Thank you for being objective. It’s mentally exhausting living life here and dealing with insane people and then going online to hear more about how the country is falling apart.

As a Roman I'm impressed about the big amount of symbols in the USA : eagles topping the flag staff (like in the Rome ensigns), Latin used everywhere also in the states' flags. Fasces as emblem of the senate. (this symbol here is prohibited de jure becouse associated with the fascism). More, you have the Capitol, from the Roman Capitolium (the place of the Rome city council).

Pretty much nailed it. The capacy for collective action is key and that necessary includes sacrifice. Once that starts to deteriorate plus many other factors the empire starts to disintegrate. There is actually a lot of scientific work done on the common principles as to why empires fall . They all have something in common no matter the time period and capacity for collective action is one key aspect. And you are absolutely spot on on what made the Romans spacial , it was neither their tactics nor the weapons in the beginning but their ability to accept casualties no matter how high until the eventually won , which was completely alien to the ancient world . Normally after one or two big battles you would start to negotiate. Not the Romans . You should read the work of Peter Turchin if you haven't already.

Another good video again. Keep going my friend.

As someone studying history, it's very rare to be informed and have a laugh at the same time. You have a great channel and I immediately click on every video! This video was a really cool exercise in learning from the past and comparing government strategies. But personally I think that while this works for specifics, trying to make such general connections spanning the entirety of the two states doesn't work too well. For example, the degrading of Rome's coin bullion value has an absolutely perfect parallel to when the mint did the exact same thing in 1965 converting all of the silver coins to copper-nickel. The same thing happened and people horded coins. They did it so much that there was a national coin shortage and the mint began all kinds of weird policies to try and fight that like taking the mint marks off of all coins for three years. Today you will pretty much never see a dime or a quarter with a date 1964 or before even though the two coins haven't changed otherwise since 1932 and 1946. But while we can learn lessons from Rome's mistakes in specifics it doesn't really translate well to general modern policies. Whereas it seems like the Roman currency essentially failed because of this, in a post gold standard and bullion coin world the consequences of these decisions aren't really the same at all. Today all American coins really don't have any inherent value at all and nobody really cares. What I'm trying to say is that it's a really interesting and entertaining thought experiment to compare the two and find parallels and so on. It works great for specifics, I actually wholeheartedly agree that there is a lot to be learned from the very comparisons you bring up in this video. I'm a big fan of learning from history. But the larger and more general meaning that can be derived from these comparisons and the more disimilar the comparisons are, the more risky and improbable the conclusions and the more you start to compare apples to oranges. The modern world of nation-state and supranational diplomacy is difficult to compare directly and while the situations may be the same, the reasoning behind them both from the government and the people is ever changing. All in all a great and thought provoking video, can't wait for the next one! This channel is criminally underrated!

Finally, I was hoping someone would make a video like this. I'm glad it was you, I really enjoyed it.

One of the best videos you've done so far. Bravo.

For the army and the us no accepting a lot of casualties i think you forget that WW2 and more recent wars are completely different. WW2 was global between many modern armies of the time so casualties were expected to be high, however a war like Afghanistan was suppose to be a "get in, get out" situation which pissed a lot of people off when countless lives were lost

Dam pretty good video, i love the edition overall

Lots of laughs from this. Thanks bro! awesome vid

I loved this video

Praetorian happily chilling on the floor is really funny and relevant.

This is becoming my new favorite channel, so based.

Am very impressed by all of your works! Thank you for sharing

the difference in the economy is that the US can do that by pegging the dollar to raw materials that are fungible (petrodollar), while gold can be melted and reminted so devaluing is not comparable.

Well... it is one of the more fair and accurate representations I seen.

I feel like you got a huge timeline and choose things that fit. Not that i don't see it, but its such a long time period that (maybe) you can find what ever you want. I could for example say that the fact that the romans became more socialist casued its collapse (bread for poor), or that climate change caused its collapse (casued migration of people south), or i can say migrants casued the roman collapse (germans in the army). You can probably fit any political narative you like...

Mate, how you haven't got more subs is beyond me, respect from Ireland, that letter from that soldier to his missus.....heartwarming, proper romantics.

the biggest parallel imo is the incredible centralization of wealth and ownership in the hands of a handful of oligarchs to the detriment of the whole government, economy, and society. it is the mark of the downfall of almost every majour long-lived empire in history.

I heavily disagree with your take on the "focus on casualties" that is "limiting" the US and Roman forces. You completely neglect the question of why these casualty numbers back then were acceptable, and not later on. The ability to sustain losses and keep going is tied to, among other things, the public acceptance of these sacrifices. The fight against the Japanese was seen in a completely different light by the population than the fight in Afghanistan. In late Rome, the political and public participation system was totally fucked, with emperors dying one after another, which makes it really hart for any politician to go: "yeah, that battle didn't went well, but we'll get em next time." Its not so much a question of "will" but more if a society can answer the question of any recruit: "Why the fuck am I fighting?" A good example into the other direction would be the combat against the IS, where nearly all major political camps in the west were pro fighting them. Of course, that conflict was mostly done by "auxiliary" forces, but the fact that the opponents of the then president where not so much focused on "if" he should fight them, but more if his strategy is doing well, speaks for itself.

History cannot repeat it self as time and technology changes but it can and dose rhyme with a rhythm of war and blood of the innocence. With instruments of terribly ternary. Composed vocals of crying discontent of the poor, and wailing of mothers over their dead children and crys of for fathers who begins to rise of justice. Befor the curtains of silence. And the fallen become rumor. Rumors become sayings sayings become history history becomes dust. As they are forgotten. And we begin the cycles once more. With no recollection of this song that echoes history.

Demographics: The weird thing about the demographics of gender populations is that yes, the 49.5 / 50.5% applies nationwide, but in NYC (where I live), I notice an 8 to 1 male to female ratio. If you walk past a high school, you'll see 8 - 12 guys flocking around 1 girl, because they don't have any other choice to follow others. A college classroom of even Liberal Arts (forget Computer Programming where females count for 1%), there is 80-20% male to female ratio.. That's why in NYC guys started over the last decade trying to hit on underage girls, others became incels, I doubt Rome had this issue. International Relations: The similarity I see between Rome and the US is that Rome will find any reason to "Defensively" attack a nation or tribe. The US does it similarly in terms of "Defending the Liberties of the People", a false-flag and propagandized reasons to achieve greater agenda (such as "defending" Ukraine to specifically target Russia, and defending "Taiwan and South China Sea" to target China"). Wars: 1 thing I disagree with the author of this video is when he mentions US casualties during Okinawa. There are 2 key differences that I see with that issue. 1. The US was a draft army back then as opposed to a contract army now, where more investment is put into the individual soldier and thus 1 casualty results in a greater net loss than in WWII or Korea or Vietnam. 2. Despite the 1st key difference, the US still received the least amount of deaths (around 420,000) compared to most other nations that were part of the war (including over 1 million Japs, 14 million USSR soldiers [not counting civilians], 10 milliom Chinese, 7 million Germans, etc). So statistically, they still did better than most nations. Politics: With how the author here mentioned that Roman citizens became focused on hating each other for different views or languages as opposed to hating the true enemies waiting outside, I see the same thing in NYC. With Liberals trying hard to promote diversity, they do it to such an extent where I see it being impossible to have any sort of "American" unity. In fact, I don't see almost anyone in NYC claiming to be an American, there's no Patriotism here, and since everybody comes from different backgrounds with different views, if there's ever a crisis here, I don't see people coming together to face it (don't get me wrong, I'm not saying diversity is the problem. The USSR was also diverse but there was more-so a sense of unity there). Economy: It's not that the US prints more money to attempt to stabilize the economy or circulate more value. It's that the US keeps "borrowing from itself / future self", the main US debt is debt to itself and its private sectors. The further cause for the inflation is after the USD became not being back by the gold standard, so only the USD backs the USD (and subsequently any other currency in the world), so printing more doesn't necessarily cause the inflation, but more-so of creditors and loans and so on. Conclusion: The more things change, the more they stay the same! I also really like the SPQR outline of Rome's territory. I've seen many times a USA flag over US territory but not Rome, so I find it unique.

I’m not an expert on Rome but I’m pretty knowledgeable about American military. I don’t believe that the US military is comparable with that of the Romans. The problem with the US military today isn’t that it can’t win or something but rather it can’t sit in places forever doing endless counter insurgency, and counter insurgency in the modern era is a lot harder because you won’t win much support for the war by leveling a village. Look at Vietnam for example, it was widely reported as a war where the US was just mindlessly bombing civilians, but if you look at the casualties attributable to Rolling Thunder it’s actually lower than you might think. Same with Iraq; according to the Iraq Body Count, the Coalition is responsible for around 7% of all civilian deaths. And yet, these are still often derided as civilian bloodbaths and US recklessness. The Romans to my understanding didn’t have this problem, at least nowhere close to the way the US has it, hell they crucified people and genocided Gaul for standing up to them. The Romans in my opinion were unable to achieve military victories against their enemies like for example Teutoburg Forest (if I remember correctly) which was a clear military defeat. The US hasn’t lost an actual battle in quite some time. The invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq were both enormous successes, and had the US invaded North Vietnam without Chinese interference (which was why this never happened) they probably would’ve won the war, the ensuing occupations were the problem. The Romans in Germania didn’t even really get a chance because their military campaign, invading and taking all of Germania, was itself a failure. Meanwhile for Iraq, which honestly I think was a US victory in the overall war, the invasion was an enormous success and the Iraqi military was destroyed in a matter of weeks, even with the Iraqis having known for months the US would be attacking them. As for casualties, firstly in the US there has always been some problem with casualties as there are in any democracy. The Civil War was very unpopular for a while, even as late as in 1864 during the whole scare with Jubel Early attacking Washington. The casualties were horrific and many people opposed it, but of course people eventually came to their senses. Casualties were also a big concern in WWII but with all wars I think victory was considered most important, like the Battle of Antietam was an absolute bloodbath with 22,000 casualties in one day (consider also that the population back then of the US both north and south was about 30M) and barely even a Union victory which was following a year of constant military failure yet it gave the American people massive hope and allowed for the Emancipation Proclamation. I do think that if there was a battle in Afghanistan that had a similar timetable as Okinawa and had a similar number of casualties it would be (rightly) outrageous because in Okinawa the IJA (and IJN I guess) was a professional and equipped military force whereas the terrorists in Afghanistan were as far as the average American is concerned some guys with Toyota trucks and AKs wearing sandals who live in mountains attacking the most powerful military machine in human history. We also need to account for the fact that in recent years combat deaths in wars have decreased dramatically due to a few reasons such as medical advances making the lost to wounded ratio much more favorable as well as that the US has generally been fighting NGOs which can’t fight in pitched battles against the US and when they do it ends for them like the Gulf War did for Iraq who attempted to beat the US in their own game. I think if we were at war right now with China or Russia and a battle ended with 20,000 American casualties, it would certainly be disgusting and shocking to the American public but since these are big powerful countries it would be understood that these losses aren’t unreasonably high. With all this said I thought this was a great video nonetheless!

I'm actually surprised you didn't get into early American history where they, on purpose might I add, tried to replicate a Roman government. The founding fathers took classical civilization in College and many were um... the OG Imperium Boiis. I suggest everyone watching this look at the Cult of Washington. My Roman Civ professor from college years ago dedicated 20 minutes discussing how much of an impact Rome had on the founding of the USA.

Romans to the Church: Libtard! Americans to the Church: Bigot! I don't know why, but this made my weekend. It's also a good example of how a non-issue yesterday would be seen as "problematic" today.

Very interesting video. In my humble opinion your ideas were really good.

Great video as usual!

Saved me from my boredom thanks

How was your tour as a Limitanei?

My comment comparing the USA to Rome didn't make it into the video :( Great vid!

Oh this is gonna be fun.

Great insight, but cmon, callingIraqi and Afghan wars unprofitable is factually incorrect. Military industrial complex and private contractors made a fortune out of this.

One issue I find that is crucial to mention that u didn’t was the dynamic of concentration of wealth and power to the wealthy/elite. Rome had the largest population in the world but many were stuck on wealthy plantations. The middle class in both empires gets squeezed and in turn the state becomes susceptible to outside pressures forcing collapse. First the inside rots and then it takes another force (say natural disaster or enemy nation) to topple the hegemon. Great video tho!!

Excellent video. Love your channel.

You really got me thinking, thanks!

I think its time the American continents are whipped into shape by some brilliant ambitious Man.

I call dibs on being American Justinian.

Keep up the videos man just subbed

This is the video I was looking for, it took an outsider to make me see these parallels fully

I Like what you done with this video, but I would say the comparison of military spending compared to overall budget is a poor piece of information to compare them on, as the US more overall government spending in comparison to their overall economy than the Romans did. I would say comparing them on military spending as a percentage of GDP, which according to Wikipedia is 2.5% for Rome (time not mentioned) and 3.8% for the US (2006). Thanks for the video.

In some ways the US is less of a Republic than Rome was during its republican era. The US executive branch consolidates an incredible amount of power into a single person who rules for a minimum of four years unless that person steps down or is impeached. In Rome, such power was diffused between two consuls who served for but a single year. Neither consul had a nuclear football. :P

Thank you for this.

Just found your channel and I’m addicted lmao

To be frank I don't think the late Roman Empire and the USA are a good comparison at all. A way better one would be the late Roman Republic, but even then the comparisons are only superficial.

from 15:05 to 17 is the best part i think and it so real damn

Nailed it. Specially the part that they´re fighting each other more than external enemies. And they´ve abandoned the masses. The Golden Billion has become a Golden Million.

This is video I needed

You forgot to mention corrupt Leaders

If I'm not mistaken the whole scheme of giving current tribes the names of older ones wasn't as much a mistake as a convention based on a different outlook on the world. Tribal exonyms were tied to geography and thus any tribe coming from a certain region was the same as any ancient tribe coming from the same regions. There wasn't really anything similar to today's scientific mindset and Roman scholars thus had their peculiarities.

goes to show how knowledge in history can give lots of insight into today

You nailed it amicus! Ave!

Great video! I think you could also do something similar regarding Rome's decline and fall of the republic with what is happening in the USA and a few other western countries as well. The rise of powerful men, the decline of institutions keeping the system working, increased loyalty to individuals rather than the state and so on. This channel has great potential and I can't wait to see more! Whenever I think about Rome and the USA/West today as counterparts, Spengler's "Decline of the west" comes to mind. Definitely a great read on how civilizations decline and fall. Cheers and as always keep up the good fight!

I think that you made serious mistake not talking about roman society evolution for youre "dead in battle arguments" , the roman Republic rely on levy/volunteer to do war. Thus big loses mater less. In the late roman Empire , the military has become much more professional and people just didnt want to go to war for religious but mainly economic reason. Thus solider were valuable , extremly valuable. If you had to that the fact that the Emperor himself was killed in the battle of Andrinipole you mention no wonder it was seen has a military disaster. So its not focus on casualty that was the problem in late rome.

👏🙂 Its still an amazing video to watch a year later

Ketchup: The Garum of the USA.

That last point on economy, the US dollar has more ways to fight inflation than Rome like Petro Dollar and Virtual currency(Bitcoin, etc). Notice how the value of those shot up when the US just printed money, thats where the inflation went. Also the US has a weapon called WallStreet that has regularly since 1991 harvested the wealth of the world. Examples are Japan in 1991, Uk in 1993, SEA in 1997, Russia in 1998. Recent ones I recall are Greece in 2008, Venezuela in 2012 and China in 2015. Those are all cases where WS with Federal support(via Interest rates) has used currency depreciation(dumping on Forex)+Shorting to sucker punch their economies. Stuff like this is why George Soros is always in conspiracy theories, because his Quantum Fund was always the spearhead on these operations. Story Time: The only moment Soros, speculators(banks+financial institutions) and hot money were defeated(as in lost money) was in 1997 Hong Kong because those HK tycoons with some help from China(since handover was happening) actually worked together instead of shorting their own Stock Market to make huge profits. Granted the Top 5 Richest were in traditional industries like Gold, Shipping, Malls, etc. that would suffer a lot if they didnt work together. And so after losing money in Hong Kong, they went to Russia. PS: This isnt some conspiracy where I tell you that everything was the fault of the "Jews" in WallStreet. Those economies were teetering on the edge, with low foreign reservers, huge debts and inflated stock markets. The Governments ignored those signs for more profit(hell Thailand was thinking of making an Asian Financial Hub like London), it was gonna crash and burn either way; WallStreet just nudged them off the cliff.

Would be neat if you could tackle the differences between the US and the late Roman empire next

Amazing video!

Wish you would have tackled the Roads of the two empires and its similarities or differences. id love to see or hear your take on it.

I would compare the statue thing not to the Iconoclast controversy, which was an inter-Christian theological dispute, but to the earlier purging of pagan statuary and imagery from the cities throughout the empire. Iconoclasts take issue with imagery in principle, specifically of things they personally hold as sacred, whereas the Christian purging of pagan imagery was born of their perception of it as evil or demonically inspired in some way; in the same sense the radicals running around pulling down statues of Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln aren't doing it because they think they're too divine to be rendered artistically but because to them they're symbols of an evil past that must be purged. In a broader view the current culture war is a bad rehashing of the Pagan-Christian conflict of the late empire, radicals from a new religion believing the old system is evil and must be brought down so that those who suffered under its yoke can prosper batting proponents of the old way who believe in the empire and its gods. It goes even deeper with early Christendom often promoting a communal lifestyle and refusing to participate in society save to spread their religion, which largely appealed to the middle and upper classes who then used their institutional weight to slowly shift the cultural consensus from the old ways to Christianity. I hate reruns.

Yeah, modern Americans waste so much energy fighting over political correctness and social justice, much the same way they argued over the different interpretations of Christianity.

This channel is a goldmine 😂

Question, wouldn't it make more sense to compare the states to the Republic going into empire?

Meh tbf I don't like this kind of parallelisms because you can literally do them with everything and make a convincing argument, like there are so many different and complicated aspects about power, politic, war, empires and countries that you could compare San Marino to the USA (which could be a good mental exercise but there is no point in doing that). The Roman empire and USA are two totally different entities in a totally different world with different values and different people living in it so a comparison its just never gonna be accurate, sure you can learn from the Roman empire but you can't predict the future or something like that

Ironicly the win in second punic war is probably what give the seeds for eventual roman destruction. The backbone of early roman army are either dead because look at those casualties or become dead poor because while they were away campaigning their farm to sustain their income and living withered away and no longer has a means to sustain their own equipment. In addition in second punic war general was given much more liberty and authority to defeat Carthage. It works but the new power granted to the Roman general never really been curtailed especially now the Roman turn their eyes into Greek and Hispania.

This guy was ahead of his time in making this video before the trend and actually did it good. Tbh I want a joke video where any comparison is just "In Rome, no one knew what was even happening in relation to this aspect. But in the US, no one knows what is happpening in relation to this aspect" because of how many shallow and meaningless corporate media videos have been made about the inevitable demise that will happen just the way it did to ancient empires in the last 2 years

Comparison between America and the Galactic Republic in Star Wars Canon: America is on the path to destruction. In Star wars, the CIS secedes because the Republic only cares about rich urban populations and neglects the more rural and poor systems. Sound familiar with how the Federal government treats certain states? Eh, eh!? (This is a joke.)

There are definitely a staggering amount of similarities between the two, but I have enough faith in my country and it's people to believe that we won't decline. We may stagnate but all things do that.

You nailed IT vEry well.

This needs to blow up

Well, the Roman Republic lasted 482 years and the Roman Empire lasted 422 years. So, if the parallel holds up, we in the USA with a 232 year old constitution should have about another 190 - 250 years left!