r/worldnews • u/Significant-Colour • 1d ago

China strikes back at Trump with 34 percent tariff — bans rare earth exports to the U.S.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/china-strikes-back-on-trump-tariffs-bans-rare-earth-exports-to-the-u-s
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u/sigmoid10 1d ago

Bold assumption that they will recover. We are witnessing what it must have been like to be alive during the fall of Rome.

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u/Low_Cauliflower9404 1d ago

To be fair most romans didn't realize the empire was falling. What with extremely slow communication and the slow progression. Living in Rome proper sucked tho. America's ultra speed running it AND it's constantly in their faces

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u/dreamiicloud_ 1d ago

I don’t think the MAGA idiots even realize things are crumbling around them, despite it happening so quickly.

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u/Low_Cauliflower9404 20h ago

I don't think they care.

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u/dreamiicloud_ 19h ago

The Romans may not have cared either. The slow distribution of information during the fall in Rome is much like a frog that remains in water that is slowly heated to boiling. They continued to brush it off like it’s no big deal, and they didn’t realize how bad things got until it was too late.

Trump did the same thing with MAGA Americans. I truly believe he has been priming the public for this since 2016. Almost 10 years of being slowly accustomed to unprofessional behaviours from elected officials, name calling, racism, accusations of fake news… slowly increasing the intensity of blatant propaganda tactics.

Uneducated people are not going to notice the gradual intensity happening right in front of them. I remember how outrageous we all thought his behaviour was in 2016. Now, we are numb to it.

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u/Domi4 1d ago

Oh yes they did. Hordes coming to the borders from the east, emperors killed one after the other, shine of the city of Rome disappeared, new religion becoming dominant, lack of development and inovation, no new constructions, monetary crisis...

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u/Windfade 1d ago

So we have a few hundred years to go, sweet.

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u/BannedSvenhoek86 1d ago

These people think we're witnessing the collapse of the Roman Empire not realizing that with a military like ours all they're witnessing is the fall of the Republic.

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u/TheGentlemanDM 1d ago

Difference is that Augustus was a competent statesman.

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u/RJ815 1d ago

Romans didn't have nukes. Or social media to collapse economies in a matter of hours.

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u/PorkedPatriot 1d ago

Rome took over 500 years to fall! We might get 500 days.