> It really must be bizarre watching an empire crumble. I can only liken it to the immediate aftershock of Brexit in London. The British empire fell way before

> It really must be bizarre watching an empire crumble. I can only liken it to the immediate aftershock of Brexit in London. The British empire fell way before Brexit. Swinging demographic changes, neoliberalism, decolonization, globalization, delegating policy to Brussels, etc. The same thing is happening in most western nations. It doesn't have to be this way but it is.