Who will be the Next Rome, the next U.S.

macgyver06
macgyver06 Posts: 2,500
edited January 2007 in A Moving Train
Who will be the Next, Rome, the next U.S.....and would you move there..would you join them
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  • Rushlimbo
    Rushlimbo Posts: 832
    In your own words, "who cares".
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  • lalalalaaaaaaaa
    lalalalaaaaaaaa Posts: 2,445
    I'm not sure there will be a next Rome or U.S. The lifespan of empires has shortened over time it seems. The U.S. is struggling to hold on even now, and it's economic empire didn't completely take shape until 20 or so years ago. The British empire lasted much longer, and the Roman empire longer than that (I think?).
  • given to grunge
    given to grunge Posts: 244
    Saturnal wrote:
    I'm not sure there will be a next Rome or U.S. The lifespan of empires has shortened over time it seems. The U.S. is struggling to hold on even now, and it's economic empire didn't completely take shape until 20 or so years ago. The British empire lasted much longer, and the Roman empire longer than that (I think?).

    Hi there!
    two days ago I was with a friend of mine, sitting in a bar, talking about everything and than came America on the topic list.
    He's finished the history college...
    From our constatation there is NO GREATER empire than U.S.A.!
    And really when you take all the qualities that USA has (there's no country that could harm you -USA-) and it's true.
    That's not fact you should be proud of, but I know it from here, from Europe, that every country keep their mouth shut when it comes to talk against USA.

    My country is small one next to Italy, it is Republic of CROATIA (I wonder if you know where is it situated on the world map?!).
    We here have large amount of fresh, clean water springs (we still can drink water from the pipes in our home or at our squares (from fountains).
    And we are all in kind of fear of you Americans, ---- now you're fighting others for oil but for 5 or 10 yrs you'll come to us and fight us for the water we have!

    Do you get what I'm trying to say here?!

    :!
    First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. - Mahatma Gandhi
  • lalalalaaaaaaaa
    lalalalaaaaaaaa Posts: 2,445
    given to grunge wrote:
    Hi there!
    two days ago I was with a friend of mine, sitting in a bar, talking about everything and than came America on the topic list.
    He's finished the history college...
    From our constatation there is NO GREATER empire than U.S.A.!
    And really when you take all the qualities that USA has (there's no country that could harm you -USA-) and it's true.
    That's not fact you should be proud of, but I know it from here, from Europe, that every country keep their mouth shut when it comes to talk against USA.

    My country is small one next to Italy, it is Republic of CROATIA (I wonder if you know where is it situated on the world map?!).
    We here have large amount of fresh, clean water springs (we still can drink water from the pipes in our home or at our squares (from fountains).
    And we are all in kind of fear of you Americans, ---- now you're fighting others for oil but for 5 or 10 yrs you'll come to us and fight us for the water we have!

    Do you get what I'm trying to say here?!

    :!

    If I were you, I'd be scared of the U.S. too. I agree with most of what you're saying. There is no single country that could do significant damage to the U.S. right now.
  • floyd1975
    floyd1975 Posts: 1,350
    given to grunge wrote:
    Hi there!
    two days ago I was with a friend of mine, sitting in a bar, talking about everything and than came America on the topic list.
    He's finished the history college...
    From our constatation there is NO GREATER empire than U.S.A.!
    And really when you take all the qualities that USA has (there's no country that could harm you -USA-) and it's true.
    That's not fact you should be proud of, but I know it from here, from Europe, that every country keep their mouth shut when it comes to talk against USA.

    My country is small one next to Italy, it is Republic of CROATIA (I wonder if you know where is it situated on the world map?!).
    We here have large amount of fresh, clean water springs (we still can drink water from the pipes in our home or at our squares (from fountains).
    And we are all in kind of fear of you Americans, ---- now you're fighting others for oil but for 5 or 10 yrs you'll come to us and fight us for the water we have!

    Do you get what I'm trying to say here?!

    :!

    I thought it was the Americans that were known around here to live in irrational fear.
  • miller8966
    miller8966 Posts: 1,450
    given to grunge wrote:
    Hi there!
    two days ago I was with a friend of mine, sitting in a bar, talking about everything and than came America on the topic list.
    He's finished the history college...
    From our constatation there is NO GREATER empire than U.S.A.!
    And really when you take all the qualities that USA has (there's no country that could harm you -USA-) and it's true.
    That's not fact you should be proud of, but I know it from here, from Europe, that every country keep their mouth shut when it comes to talk against USA.

    My country is small one next to Italy, it is Republic of CROATIA (I wonder if you know where is it situated on the world map?!).
    We here have large amount of fresh, clean water springs (we still can drink water from the pipes in our home or at our squares (from fountains).
    And we are all in kind of fear of you Americans, ---- now you're fighting others for oil but for 5 or 10 yrs you'll come to us and fight us for the water we have!

    Do you get what I'm trying to say here?!

    :!

    You have Mirko "Cro-Cop" filipovich...we fear you
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  • sapperskunk
    sapperskunk Posts: 684
    I love the fear thing. I wish more countries were scared shitless of us.
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  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    The people of the Scottish Isle of Muck.

    http://www.road-to-the-isles.org.uk/muck.html
  • sapperskunk
    sapperskunk Posts: 684
    Byrnzie wrote:
    The people of the Scottish Isle of Muck.

    http://www.road-to-the-isles.org.uk/muck.html


    Byrnzie are you hinting that these peaceful, craft loving "Muck" people are a threat to the US's existance?

    Cause if so, I'll make some phone calls and we'll get that island carpet bombed back into stone age. ;)
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  • macgyver06
    macgyver06 Posts: 2,500
    you guys ever read Julius Caesar?
  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    sapperskunk wrote:
    Byrnzie are you hinting that these peaceful, craft loving "Muck" people are a threat to the US's existance?

    Cause if so, I'll make some phone calls and we'll get that island carpet bombed back into stone age. ;)

    Do it, just don't fuck with the sheep. Their cousins in the U.S will come after ya! ;)
  • flywallyfly
    flywallyfly Posts: 1,453
    macgyver06 wrote:
    you guys ever read Julius Caesar?

    I use Caesar dressing on my salad. He looks alot like Paul Newman for some reason.
  • Collin
    Collin Posts: 4,931
    China, India... I don't know and I don't care. Or Russia.
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  • Pacomc79
    Pacomc79 Posts: 9,404
    I'd say China, but they've pretty much been huge and important for centuries anyway. They already are an empire of sorts.
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  • humanlight
    humanlight Posts: 271
    Saturnal wrote:
    If I were you, I'd be scared of the U.S. too. I agree with most of what you're saying. There is no single country that could do significant damage to the U.S. right now.


    Yes there is, and it is called, America. We are imploding people!
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  • Collin
    Collin Posts: 4,931
    Saturnal wrote:
    If I were you, I'd be scared of the U.S. too. I agree with most of what you're saying. There is no single country that could do significant damage to the U.S. right now.

    I agree with humanlight. And believe me there are a whole lot of countries who could do significant damage to the US. Unless you seem the think the terrorist attacks on 9/11 didn't cause significant damage, and that was just a group of people, not a country.
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  • macgyver06
    macgyver06 Posts: 2,500
    flywallyfly wrote:
    I use Caesar dressing on my salad. He looks alot like Paul Newman for some reason.

    Paul Newman...the crocodile dundee guy? :)
  • mammasan
    mammasan Posts: 5,656
    As long as there is oil and that oil can only be bought and sold with US dollars, the US empire will never fall. Hence our presence in Iraq. People thin k we are there to steal the oil, we are not. We are there to make sure that all that oil can not be sold or bought in any other form of currency than the good old green back.
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  • world
    world Posts: 266
    Damn, CroCop rules all.

    But, I see the United States becoming more like Great Britain then Rome.
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  • musicismylife78
    musicismylife78 Posts: 6,116
    a better question is: why do people always act like the u.s. will be the worlds only superpower FOREVER. Why do people act like we will dominate the world FOREVER? Why do people act like what happened to Rome, or Britain or any other empire, wont happen to us? All empires have fallen, and its only a matter of time before ours does as well.

    Thats why I think being antiracist is not only morally important but also practical. When it all goes down, and the American empire collapses, just like every other empire in history did, who the hell do you think will be in power? Look at the skin color of the MAJORITY of the world's populations? They aint rich white racist jerks. No the majority of the population worldwide is poor and a person of color. So whenever I see a racist on tv, and they say "oh those blacks are so stupid" or "blacks are criminals", I wonder, why they think that the american empire wont collapse, and the worlds populations will decend on them. As a professor of mine suggested, "those racists have alot of faith that whites will ALWAYS be in control of the world". What happens when they are not?

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