What could Rome have done to prevent or at least postpone it's

I meant to say did they get outmaneuvered.

Decentralize all of their land other than Italy.

convert to judaism, shiite islam, sunni islam

Reduce solders' salary.

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>>2522517
>Helm with stereotypical horns
>Vikings
>yfw this never happened

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>>2522517
its a long story.

>the short version
rome is what happens when you create a multi, ethnic multi religious, aristocratic empire spanning multiple continents with iron age technology. it was bound to fail

>the long version
the roman rulers were very short sighted, focusing more on expanding the borders and gaining political power over building a sustainable empire.
everyone likes to talk about the roads but outside of that the infrastructure in rome was utter shit. gual was almost completely unutilized going through manpower crisis and famines very often.

then you have the oppression of the lower classes.
many peasants were taxed until they were in such dire straits that they had to sell their kids into slavery just to survive and the upper class did little to nothing to fix this issue.
christians were oppressed, (for most of the existence of rome) jews were oppressed, pagans were oppressed, anyone of germanic or celtic descent were oppressed.
all of this led people to feel the only way to get ahead was to revolt and break free from roman rule, its why people were so willing to follow alaric on his death march to rome.

then there was military issues
there simply were not enough people or funding to field a proper military. with all the famines and lack of infrastructure just getting an army together was a logistical nightmare let alone maintaining and transporting said army.
it got to the point that they were relying more on germanic mercenaries to defend the realm then they were relying on an actual army

Either
>Refuse to let immigrant goths into your land in the first place/genocide them a la Julius caesar
or
>If you do let them into your land, spread them out and decentralize them. Then do not foolishly attack them or try to starve them to death.

Thus ends the problem of the Goths

>>2522547
> Islam

Are you retarded? You know when islam emerged right?

>>2522609
Is this why people draw comparisons between Rome and the U.S.?

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>>2522614
>If you do let them into your land, spread them out and decentralize them. Then do not foolishly attack them or try to starve them to death.
yes goyim, that worked so well with us

>>2522609
i realize i never answered the question.

the best answer i can give is to give rome the justinian treatment and completely overhaul the entire military, administrative, and social structure of rome.

allow germanic people to integrate properly and "modernize" gaul and germania as oposed to allowing them to languish in a barren wasteland until war breaks out or you crave some german boipussy.

stop expanding and build up what was already conquered so that it's more easily defended and maintained.

>>2522645
yes. its not a perfect analogy but we are headed down this road at a frightening pace.

>>2522645
>>2522668
How many Germanic auxiliaries does the US currently rely on?

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>>2522517
>>2522596
>German "art"

>>2522517
Not lose a third of its population to plague.

>>2522645
well infrastructure seems to be crumbling in some places and theres a constant need for war so I can see how the parallels are being drawn

>>2522609
>there simply were not enough people or funding to field a proper military
At the western Roman empire's end the army was twice as big as it had been in the time of Augustus.

>>2522517
>ywn be slaughtered by scary german dudes in a swamp far from home

>>2522517

They should've tried splitting the empire into two smaller empires.

>>2522609
>be german foederati
>spend the growing season in the pay of the roman empire to protect gaul
>harvest time comes around and its time to get together with your bros and pillage the whole place
>reenlist at the next town come planting season

>>2526276
>ywn throw javelins at frogs and steal their crops while you swill their faggy wine

>>2524240
Well we do have NATO