The decline of empires can lead to the loss of their core territories.

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• There is no counsel in the continental world on when to stop taking territory, which is why Chinese and Russian empires keep overextending and imploding. SPSarah Paine9 Jun 2026
• The Russian Empire acquired a sixth of the Earth by integrating conquered elites rather than their peoples, and nationalism is what made that model fall apart. SPSerhii Plokhy4 Mar 2024
• The fall of the Western Roman Empire was a real loss of state capacity, not merely a change of management, and the evidence for that loss is ample. BDBret Devereaux28 Jan 2022
• The most likely bad outcome is not a takeover but a gradual loss of control and understanding, as fewer and fewer people understand what we have layered everywhere. AKAndrej Karpathy17 Oct 2025
• The American empire might still come tumbling down in tumultuous ways DHDavid Heinemeier Hansson30 Mar 2023

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