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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;baseball21, post: 5355032, member: 76863&quot;]That really hasn&#039;t been true in modern times.&nbsp; Plenty of countries with &quot;economic strength&quot; have a fairly weak military by comparison such as the British, Germany, France etc.&nbsp; Part of that is because the US has it they don&#039;t need it, but military strength is much more complicated than the economy. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Rome became powerful because of the legion and the it&#039;s extensive use of slave labor.&nbsp; Fear controlled most of it&#039;s territory for non-Romans and once the legions showed it was beatable everyone started taking shots at the champ.&nbsp; Everything from civil war, weakened legions, disease lead to it&#039;s downfall because the slave labor system only worked with a strong military.&nbsp; Changing religious beliefs played a role as well.&nbsp; Regardless it&#039;s not really that relevant it&#039;s just an example of an empire that when the military was strong it prospered, when it was weakened and over extended it crumbled. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>They never could support an equal one aside from nukes most was just perception.&nbsp; Communism has never worked and never will work, it&#039;s always a fairly short lived style of government (in terms of history of 100-200 years max) without constantly killing dissenters regularly which will also eventually lead to their demise[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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