I'm Gise Germanicus is here and we're having a good conversation about no endings just great power competition

Which is something Rome didn't have to master because Cardigo de Lendez, the only rival we thought we had, we

salted the wells.

However, the Parthians were annoying at the edge. Right now we're talking about the 21st century

and choices. The Roman way of war was Trajan and Hadrian. They understood it. You didn't negotiate with your enemy.

You destroyed it the way they destroyed Dacia.

They destroyed it so completely that for centuries of archaeology, two or three centuries.

They thought the capital city was in fact one that the Romans built afterwards to make sure

that the dations didn't rebuild.

Sommerges Tousa Regia in the Carpathian Mountains.

Transylvania, that's where the dations live.

However, that's the Roman way of war and there is an alternative and the question is which way is the US going?

Germanicus, I think I know the answer but I want to make sure so I'll phrase it this way

We have the Roman way of war which is the might of Rome and the enemy must be destroyed. Carthage must be destroyed forever. Just

ruins, even hard to find ruins two thousand years later.

Or there is the alternative which is to pay them

and negotiate and call it diplomacy.

That's a choice that the US has not made routinely, but has made. Which way are we going now?

We're going neither way because today the United States is at the mercy of two highly

aggressive clients that have been able to leverage the U.S. to engage in

enterprises that not only go against the American national interest, but threaten to corrupt the political

system and bring the U.S. down.

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