• IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    5 days ago

    To be fair … if the Roman Empire had their hands on a modern technological military industrial complex and nuclear weapons, they probably would have blown up Germania and died in the nuclear winter a lot faster than what we’re doing now.

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      5 days ago

      They kind of had their own version of the military industrial complex, and were pretty much the most advanced military at the time?

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        4 days ago

        I agree because that is the main reason why they became such a powerful empire … but if they had entered into the modern industrial age with their military and even into the technological age … they probably wouldn’t look or act any differently than the modern US

        • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works
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          I think you can hand the US’s technology to any country in history and almost all of them would act exactly like how a global superpower would act. Power makes people evil.