The late roman empire had half a million troops at his disposal

>the late roman empire had half a million troops at his disposal
>they had 40 million people to tax and to raise as levies
>all the barbarians that invaded were no more than 750,000 in total
>still managed to collapse
What the FUCK was their army doing during that time?

fighting each other

>raise as levies
this isn't feudalism, the empire collapsed because there was no new land to reward soldiers with and profits were crumbling due to the cooling weather, so mercenaries and loans had to be taken, also a lack of strong convinction on the emperor's part

>What the FUCK was their army doing during that time?
They were bankrupt, because they wasted all the money on sex toys. They could not effectively muster and deploy such (or any) army, and defended with local militias and foderati tribes. Byzantines were functional, so they repelled the invaders (including Sassanids, the Huns, and not some snowniggers)

They had a massive territory to defend and were facing constant attacks from everywhere. Civil was all the time. No money to pay the troops, Natural disasters, famine, disease barbarisation etc.

Then why didn't the emperor in the west ask the byzzies for help?

And lunatic emperors

They were dealin with their own shit nigga

He did, and they did give it, but couldn't spare enough to make a difference.

Huns and sandniggs all up in their shit nigga

>sandniggs
Brainlet wtf?

You mean germanic tribes

The byzantines were fighting sandniggs no?

Byzantines were fighting the Sassanids, who were probably more potent (and civilized) than both halves of Rome combined, as well as the invasion of Attilla the Hunn, whom they threw out of their borders, actually.

I told his bitch ass but he called me a brainlet!

The faggot emperor who killed Aetius basically doomed the empire

Sassanians werent sandnigs

Empire was doomed when Stilicho was executed, Aetius was just the cherry on top.

honorious let them in without subjugation and refused to negotiate with them constantly after the defeats

peter heather thinks alaric wanted to settle offering pretty decent terms but was refused he then executed stilicho who was taking too long to kill the goths

embarrassing for everyone involved

>but was refused he then executed stilicho who was taking too long to kill the goths
Huh? I'm fairly certain he was executed because some fag told to Honorius that he was going to overthrow him and wanted to place his own son on the throne, and he bought it.

pretty much either way he didnt really resist

>"""late (western? eastern?) roman empire"""
>"""40M people"""