Roman Empire

Who deserves the title? You have to pick one

Finland.

Austria-Hungary, for they were ruled by the Habsburgs, the last dynasty of the Holy Roman Empire.

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It's gone anons. It had a good run. Let it rest now.

To be honest it's almost an insult for the succession to imply the Roman Empire was greater.

Inb4:
>dezertz
>only lasted 4 years

>kept the Latin language alive in a province
>still use a form of Roman to refer to themselves
>have names like Traian and Claudia

Romania is the true heir of the Roman Empire.

>One of the earliest provinces in the relevant era of the roman empire.
>In close proximity to one of the main sources of roman influence Greece
>digits
It Checks out.

It's simple.

Any country hold the hegemony in Western World is the embodiment of Rome

The title passed from time to time.

You forgot
>gypsies

France, based on the first sale of the title.
France, based on the accomplishments of the First Empire and the spread of civil law by a man crowned by the Pontifex Maximus of Rome.
France as the latin successor state to the Carolingian Empire.

Now that I got my patriotic meme answers out of the way, the real heirs to Rome are all the western and eastern european nations, ie Europe as a whole. The US has turned into a merchant amoral civilization which can no longer be linked to Rome.

You can't be roman if you don't let subhumans ruin your shit.

The state?
The HRE and the Ottomans had dubious claims. But otherwise it ended in 1453.
Although I believe the Ottomans' claim was stronger. They just didn't pursue it. Only Mehmed II claimed to be Caesar of Rome.
The people?
Romans still live in Romania, and they used to live in large parts of Greece and Anatolia until they adopted the identity of "Hellenes".

Europe and its (((union))) under german and belgian merchants is going down that path too.

>The US has turned into a merchant amoral civilization which can no longer be linked to Rome.
US is Carthage?

It has been going that path mostly due to the Anglo saxon merchants tbf. The Brits have always wanted to turn it into a fucking trade union rather than a political and cultural union. Which means the EU has turned into a boring blob of stagnation. And the Germans played along because it suited their interests and they wanted to please mummy murica.

Now that Trump is running the show in the US and the Anglos are out, we can hope for change. The power is shifting back into French hands, and Mr "African women have too many kids" and "We need to send back more migrants" or "EU army when?" Macron may unfuck us if he plays his cards right.

>US is Carthage?

Damn never thought of it that way, but it actually makes sense.

We will never be unfucked unless we get rid of the €.

No, that's the easy way out which won't solve any long term problems, we will be right back as square one. We need a fiscal union to force Germany to redistribute and reinvest rather than hoard the wealth its trade surplus has granted it. Without the Euro national currencies will be devalued into the ground before anyone manages to compete with the Germans despite a strong Mark, just like before the Euro, and interest rates will grow sky high for most EU countries. People seem to think Germany will loose its edge, but that's wrong.

A common coin for many different countries with different economical power doesn't work in the modern age unless you keep the less powerful countries on welfare. And a country with no influence on their currency is at risk of basically being held hostage by the countries that have it, like how Greece either behaves like good little dog who does what his master tells him to do or starves / gets kicked out of the house. Changing control of the Euro from german merchants to other merchants won't change much.

>A common coin for many different countries with different economical power doesn't work in the modern age unless you keep the less powerful countries on welfare. And a country with no influence on their currency is at risk of basically being held hostage by the countries that have it, like how Greece either behaves like good little dog who does what his master tells him to do or starves / gets kicked out of the house.

Well yes all of this is the point of a fiscal union in addition to the monetary union. With a fiscal union, Greece and Spain wouldn't have happened and the less powerful countries wouldn't have been on welfare per se, but rather would have benefited from outside investment to finance their growth rather than public spending.

With the Drachma in Greece, the risk of contagion would have been lower, but not null, and the results for the greeks themselves would have been similar (if not worse if no one decided to bail them out ). Argentina and Sweden managed to fuck up without a common currency back in the day, for different reasons, but still.

Nobody, Rome is dead and buried. Anyone claiming to be Rome is LARPing.

So why they want to be rome?

Why cant they be their own thing?

>one
Why, the east and west were divided, thus russia is the successor to the ERE whilst austria WAS the successor to the WRE until those damn prussians fucked it all up

>what is wittlesbachs
Interesting how the hapsburgs helped found the EEC but then their greatest living member is just a race car driver, shame they don't play his imperial songs

Because romanticism is best movement, and if you have a connection to the past it legitimises your greatness, royal blood still exists today

>muslims
>never built shit
>stole children
>destroyed churches and turned Hagia Sophia into a turd surrounded by 4 islamic dicks
Yeah, I'll stick with Moskva for the heritage and success alone.

t. deus vult warrior

So... you excuse the destruction of heritage, culture and architecture when it comes to the title of Rome? Hagia Sophia's interior was literally painted over and all the artwork was lost. But why am I even bothering to reason with a roach.