You could melt them down and they'd be worth less than the face value of them at this point. So, I mean, you know, the parallels are unparalleled to be there. You know, Another parallel between what we saw in the Roman Empire and what we see in the United States today is the extent to which foreign adventurism, wars, you know, regional conflicts, drain the treasury. And we see that today. There's a perspective on the right that I'm glad to see is declining, but it's a neoconservative perspective that seems to believe that the United States post World War Two has a role in the globe as essentially world police. (17:26–17:44)
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Asserts that U.S. foreign conflicts drain the national treasury, similar to the Roman Empire.
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