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Re:Collapse OS by alfiedotwtf on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @10:57PM (#43489973)
Empires that collapsed not by military conquest didn’t know that they had collapsed until years later.
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Re:Collapse OS by cgio on Thursday March 27, 2025 @01:52AM (#43490715)
Is there any Empire that collapsed without military conquest? You can argue the collapse predated the conquest, but there’s always a conquest to seal the deal.
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Re:Collapse OS by murderfs on Thursday March 27, 2025 @03:02AM (#43491059)
The British Empire didn't collapse due to military conquest by the Germans, it fell due to economic conquest by the United States (see the Atlantic Charter and U.S. intervention in the Suez Crisis).
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