1673: #AfterAfghanistan: Is this the close of American primacy? Andrew Bacevich @QuincyInst - a podcast by John Batchelor

Photo: Imperial shifts: Rus' under the walls of Constantinople (860 AD)*





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#AfterAfghanistan: Is this the close of American primacy? Andrew Bacevich @QuincyInst



https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/02/age-american-privilege-is-over/?mc_cid=7a466249e3&mc_eid=UNIQID

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* The heir to the Roman Empire was the Byzantine Empire. Not only did Byzantium achieve greater feats of art and science than did Rome, it safeguarded (and advanced) for nearly 1,500 years the ancient knowledge of the Greeks and Romans. Combined with exposure to Islamic and far-Eastern (India and China) learning and wisdom, the Byzantine Empire was, at one point, the height of knowledge on Earth. Evidence suggests the European Renaissance was brought about an influx of Greek scholars from 1200—1450.

. . . Later, the fall of the Byzantine Empire is thought to have led to the Renaissance.