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Originally Posted by Heimdallr
Good quote, but debatable... America hasn't always been the pawn of zionism, a path that has lead to it's decline...
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That might sound to something, but it is unreal. It is in the origins of the foundation of what later would be the U.S. of America. In fact since its very first colony.
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It's budding contributions to the advancement of humankind are well documented, and like Rome, will not be fully appreciated until after it's fall.
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Romanitas was fully appreciated already in the times of the Roman Empire. Even more so in its fall. And not just by those who belonged to it, but also those who destroyed it:
"An able Goth wants to be like a Roman; only a poor Roman would want to be like a Goth"
--Theodoric The Great, Ostrogoth King of Italy--
Even the empire of the barbaric turco-mongol Tamerlan, or the Islamic Empire brought advancements. That is something inherent to empires, regardless of other considerations, because of the structures of communications that they create.
The Legacy of Romanitas is not something that one can so gratuitously grant to the Mongol Empire... or to America, only because all were structural empires.
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