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This is the Friends of History Debating Society.

I am Gaius John Bachelors, Germanicus Mark of Leos.

We're in Londonium, a Londonium that is restored from the ravages of Boutica's raid in 61 AD

that burned everything to the ground.

There's a layer of ash below us.

We don't look at it often because it alarms us to think that the Britain tribes could come back.

However, we're discussing events in the past 100 years in order to imagine what the fate

of the American Republic, a worthy successor of the Roman Republic, what the fate of the

American Republic will look like not only in the 21st century but afterwards.

There is a sense that right now the American Republic is in a series of small crises

that add up together as the modern word is polycrisis.

That was the case in the 1st century AD for the Julian Claudeian dynasty.

This is Julius Caesar Octavian, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius and Nero.

Those emperors followed the Imperial Business Plan invented by Augustus, aka Octavian.

The Imperial Business Plan was brilliant.

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