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2023- ANNUS HORRIBILIS for The American Army and Navy

The most important tidbit, factoid, to remember about the Fall of the Roman Empire, is this: between 451 AD and 476 AD, the Empire lost its ability to convince people to die for it. In 451, the Empire mustered an army of 100,000 to defeat Attila the Hun at the Battle of Chalons; by 476, the Empire could not muster   a  platoon to defend Rome itself, from the barbarians, crossing its borders, uninvited. What happened? The obvious answer is that the Empire was led by a series of Joe Biden type Emperors, who indulged in psychopathological decision making. John Le Carre  gave the following insightful insight:  “a primary qualification of  Psychopathology  is a disregard for the consequences of one’s decisions.”   Joe Biden has made a number of psychopathological decisions relating to the American Military; the end result being that 25 years of Imperial Roman decline and decay has been condensed into three years of Joe Biden leadership. The end result ...