Is the dominance of the American Empire today analogous to the

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>that pic

Not really.

The US never really financed itself with foreign occupations the way the Romans did. Most of them were money sinks.

The US is more of a hegemon than an empire, in the strictest sense.

>>2077421
it's more accurate to consider "the west" as analogous Rome then a single part of the West

>>2077430
>europoors pretending they aren't just shitty colonies and vassal states of the great American Imperium

>>2077424
Anthropologically speaking, what's going on in this picture?

>>2077458
looks like a sub species of homo sapiens called the "homo sapiens dindu"

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>>2077443
They just can't except that they're irrelevant for now. I'm sure they'll bounce back soon with some sort of revolution (industrial, medical, etc.) but until then they're just insufferably smug cunts.

>>2077515

>. I'm sure they'll bounce back soon with some sort of revolution (industrial, medical, etc.) but until then they're just insufferably smug cunts.


No the rest of the world will catch up and they'll end up irrelevant.

>>2077425

This. America's dominance is more cultural than anything.

More akin to the Athenian empire, IMO. Democratic but prone to making bad electoral decisions when things get dicey, happy to support tyrannies and oligarchies abroad as expedient, uses small, expensive whizbang military to dominate trade routes and ensure things are safe for them to make money. We don't do tribute anymore, we just make money trading with our allies and vassals instead. They get to make some money too, if they're clever, and they benefit from the relative peace provided by American military supremacy.

So yeah, a hegemon. And now that it's a global world, a thalassocracy to boot. Lots of ocean to watch.

>>2077515
>He posted it on twitter
Did he died?

>>2077655
This.
The WE ROME NAO thing is annoying, whether it's used by doomsayers (america's gonna collapse) or smug fucks.

>>2077515
Nah, Europe has always been a periphery. The 1700s-1800s was a damn fluke. They're crawling back into irrelevancy now,