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Denizens of the Sietch, the challenge has been issued. Nah, it's just the worst sort of short term thinking imaginable, built of virtue signalling and momentary gain. It's one of democracy's big weaknesses as, essentially, it is rabble politics via popularity contest. This is why the founding...

Same, although if I were a German patriot, I'd do it whilst wearing a picklehaube and bashing them over the head with a flagpole, from which the Reichskriegsflagge is billowing. Gott mit uns, my guys. Remove socialism, restore the Empire.

Funniest thing you will ever see is German monarchists spiraling into apoplectic rage over the Nazis (IE, the people who destroyed their Reich). There's a reason the old imperial flag flies at most German nationalist rallies instead of the swastika, and it isn't just down to censorship.

His recounting of the Gallic Wars is one of the few things that will send me into tears of laughter.

This is actually where British Parliamentary Monarchy worked quite well. There was no need to kill or depose a bad king because there were constitutional avenues that could be used to restrain the monarch. If the king played nice with parliament, he could do whatever he liked. If not, he's not...

Filthy fucking germs got taught their place on the pecking order. Germanicus would have asserted total chad dominance over them (indeed, it's a tragedy he didn't become Emperor) if Tiberius wasn't such a pansy.

And the ones who won didn't tend to win for long. Arminius was helpless to stop Germanicus going on his drive by through Germany. You're dead on with your assessment. Ironically adopting a more hereditary system (whilst empowering the senate) might have helped a little here, at least in terms...

Conan the Barbarian is awesome but the idea that civilised society is weak is just preposterous. I know I bring them up a lot, but the Romans were hardly weak. A culture that advocates falling on your sword to atone for defeat, where "basic training" is the First Centurion beating you with his...

When it comes to larger and more powerful states, the best you will get is something akin to the Roman Principate and Britain's Parliamentary Monarchy in the early 18th century. Both of those, whilst powerful, did have constitutional limits and had to make nice with the lower houses of...