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[–] NoTagBacks@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

Man, I wholeheartedly agree with the premise that Rome just simply had the capacity to lose. I think it may even be the largest contributing factor to the long decline of the empire. Kinda hard to maintain that capacity when it's all being spent on plagues and civil wars.