> The Roman Empire did, so did the Soviet Union, partly. The Roman Empire didn't "calm down" for hundreds of years. Even the USSR took a couple of decades. A

> The Roman Empire did, so did the Soviet Union, partly. The Roman Empire didn't "calm down" for hundreds of years. Even the USSR took a couple of decades. And in both cases, they ran into opposition. If you're going to argue that a legacy-obsessed Hitler would have calmed down within a year or so despite encountering no significant opposition, you need something more than "it could happen".