Age is not the only factor. A false sense of security affected Italy as much, if not more. Isn’t japan the oldest? How do you explain their relative success???

Age is not the only factor. A false sense of security affected Italy as much, if not more. Isn’t japan the oldest? How do you explain their relative success??? Autocracy is a bogeyman just like Socialism. Sometimes you have to temporarily rally as humanity for the good of the whole and give up your individual “freedom.”