You should know who that claim comes from and why it is complete bullshit. I hate seeing it repeated so much

I have an unreasonable dislike for sir Glubb. His conclusion is just wrong and based on horrible data. It bothers me that his opinion has lasted this long in the public consciousness

I mean look at this shit bruh

I'd be embarassed to have made this. What made him choose these dates? Wdym the Ottoman empire only lasted 250 years??? Yes, the Roman empire totally ended in 180 A.D. nothing happened after that don't worry about it haha. Don't even look at China, doesn't matter, nothing is going on there. Like???? I hate him

America is coming to its end as an empire but it's not because it reached some arbitrary date set by a Brit trying to rationalize the fall of his empire in a way that absolves its people of any fault.

Maybe we could try not being an empire....

this definitely feels more like usa’s funeral than usa’s birthday

By so many metrics the US has already failed.

We're outside the pattern. Like Rome was.

Luckily the underground crime economy is keeping it afloat.

Crossroads? It's not like you have a choice. It started as a gradual slope, but you're mid-slide now and there's no going back to your peak.

The US didn't start being an empire until after WW2