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Take power, to maintain control over different countries, export and impose its own cultural model and development: in short, build an empire. always using the usual recipe, changing only some ingredients. Recalling that every age has a beginning and an end.
Some experts argue that the historical events tend to recur frequently in the same way.
If two thousand years ago much of the known world was under the rule of a single power, the Roman Empire, today more and more countries find themselves colonized by a single economic and cultural model, that of the US. History repeats itself? With the necessary clarifications.
In fact, both Roman imperialism That the American Considered are, in part, Consequences of war so devastating That it completely changed the geo-political situation in European and global.
In the first case it is the Second Punic War, fought between 218 and 202 BC from Rome and Carthage. Many historians of the time, even Latin, as Sallustio, felt that in that occasion Carthage lost its hegemony, and Rome morality and sense of justice, as it was then, the ancients mores.
It was the Second World War, however, to determine definitively the US hegemony over all other countries.
Chalmers Johnson, American historian, published in 2007 a trilogy of books that examine the development and consequences of the American Empire ( "Blowback", "The Sorrows of Empire" and "Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic"). In these writings it supports the argument that the only difference between the "traditional empires," as the English one, and "the US" empire is that the former were based on the colonies, a more direct system of supremacy, and the second on development of a huge system of military bases around the world to cover its own strategic interests, since the time of the second global conflict. A condition that lasts to this day, more or less indirectly influencing the politics and culture of almost all countries of the world.
The Roman Empire expanded later with real wars of conquest, the US with a thin web of influences: "liberating" people from dictatorships, as happened in Italy after the war, imposed their economic model, political and cultural, only one for all.
The Roman Empire fell in 476 A.D. for an economic crisis that had caused a strong increase in inflation and the tax burden, accentuating social inequality and weakening the entire socio-economic structure. Crisis further exacerbated by the continuing depredations of Germanic tribes, the so-called barbarian invasions, the point to be taken obvious cultural connotations. Rome, in short, was no longer able to maintain such a vast empire, because he had racked up an increasingly large number of enemies.
Just that, according to Johnson, is taking place in America: the capitalist model declining, a crisis is not only economic, but social, cultural, migration and environmental, now unsolvable with the old policy remedies, internal social tensions and, overseas, the threat of terrorism.
It is said to predict the future must look to the past ... given the premises, what should we expect?
source:
Impero Romano e Stati Uniti: diverse forme di supremazia - dailySTORM
Post Scriptum:
The Americans sin of presumption and arrogance, you can not say the same thing of my antenai, to which today's Americans are very much !!
Canis dormiens nunquam titillandus..
Some experts argue that the historical events tend to recur frequently in the same way.
If two thousand years ago much of the known world was under the rule of a single power, the Roman Empire, today more and more countries find themselves colonized by a single economic and cultural model, that of the US. History repeats itself? With the necessary clarifications.
In fact, both Roman imperialism That the American Considered are, in part, Consequences of war so devastating That it completely changed the geo-political situation in European and global.
In the first case it is the Second Punic War, fought between 218 and 202 BC from Rome and Carthage. Many historians of the time, even Latin, as Sallustio, felt that in that occasion Carthage lost its hegemony, and Rome morality and sense of justice, as it was then, the ancients mores.
It was the Second World War, however, to determine definitively the US hegemony over all other countries.
Chalmers Johnson, American historian, published in 2007 a trilogy of books that examine the development and consequences of the American Empire ( "Blowback", "The Sorrows of Empire" and "Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic"). In these writings it supports the argument that the only difference between the "traditional empires," as the English one, and "the US" empire is that the former were based on the colonies, a more direct system of supremacy, and the second on development of a huge system of military bases around the world to cover its own strategic interests, since the time of the second global conflict. A condition that lasts to this day, more or less indirectly influencing the politics and culture of almost all countries of the world.
The Roman Empire expanded later with real wars of conquest, the US with a thin web of influences: "liberating" people from dictatorships, as happened in Italy after the war, imposed their economic model, political and cultural, only one for all.
The Roman Empire fell in 476 A.D. for an economic crisis that had caused a strong increase in inflation and the tax burden, accentuating social inequality and weakening the entire socio-economic structure. Crisis further exacerbated by the continuing depredations of Germanic tribes, the so-called barbarian invasions, the point to be taken obvious cultural connotations. Rome, in short, was no longer able to maintain such a vast empire, because he had racked up an increasingly large number of enemies.
Just that, according to Johnson, is taking place in America: the capitalist model declining, a crisis is not only economic, but social, cultural, migration and environmental, now unsolvable with the old policy remedies, internal social tensions and, overseas, the threat of terrorism.
It is said to predict the future must look to the past ... given the premises, what should we expect?
source:
Impero Romano e Stati Uniti: diverse forme di supremazia - dailySTORM
Post Scriptum:
The Americans sin of presumption and arrogance, you can not say the same thing of my antenai, to which today's Americans are very much !!
Canis dormiens nunquam titillandus..