What are some historical moments that marked the commencement of the decline of an empire/nation/civilization ?

>unironcially being this retarded

>modern /pol/itics thread unrelated to history
>not /pol/

>fostering a corrupt environment
>implying it's ever not been corrupt in the past 75 years especially with the last 3 presidents

Lol blumpf xD

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fostering a corrupt environment doesn't imply that there wasn't corruption to begin with.

Probably one example will be when the U.S. elected government tried to perform public oversight on its secret law enforcement agencies, and then said agencies convinced the de-educated retard population that doing so is a threat to democracy.

Stop feeding the trolls

You showed those nazis girlfriend

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please stay on topic

The decline of what is called Western Civilization has many important mileposts along the way.
- The rise of Hitler and a European continent incapable of repelling him without the aid of a relatively disinterested America.
- A "victorious", but weakened set of Allies addicted to and dependent upon a foreign power to sustain them.
- The waning of Christianity in Western Europe.
- The prevailing Leftist view in Europe that preaches a disavowing of Western culture & values, and adopting the notion that ALL Earth's remaining cultures are superior to their own.
- The resurgence of fundamentalist brand of Islam that emphasizes literal interpretations of Islamic texts & teachings, and the militarization of that philosophy.

If history teaches us anything, it teaches us that no one civilization is forever. ...That every "alpha" civilization sooner or later turns "beta", turns soft and begins to doubt its own worth. Into these vacuums stronger, hungrier, more focused tribes will rush and depose the former alpha. This is how it goes.

First Punic War for Carthage
War of Spanish Succession for the Dutch
Crimean War for Tsarist Russia
Making janissaries heriditary for the Ottoman Empire
The death of Ogedei for the Mongols

WW2 for Germany in every sense and aspect.

>- The prevailing Leftist view in Europe that preaches a disavowing of Western culture & values, and adopting the notion that ALL Earth's remaining cultures are superior to their own.
Objectively incorrect. You spend way too much time on the internet.