The Financial Times has published a hand-wringing letter from an unknown classics scholar preposterously equating the Fall of Rome with Elon Musk’s refusal to allow his Starlink satellite internet system to be used by Ukraine to attack Russia. Rome did not fall because of Musk-like wealthy “tax dodgers and semicultivated usurpers.” In the mid-4th-century Asia was hit by a mega-drought and the Huns moved west, terrorizing the Goths, and driving them to the western borders of the Roman Empire. Nearly 4 million migrants have come through American borders since Joe Biden floated into the White House, 2 million this year alone. In fact, the White House has deliberately abdicated all responsibility for controlling the border. Kaufman was right about one thing: something like the Fall of Rome is happening.

Source: The Guardian November 23, 2023 10:51 UTC