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lgieron on May 26, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: An industry that helps Chinese cheat their way int...

Didn't Athens fall because their democratic government assigned too little tax money to military? That's what happened in first Polish democracy (XV-XVIII centuries).

douche on May 26, 2016 [–]

It had more to do with launching a boondoggle invasion of Syracuse that ended in total disaster, from what I remember from my Thucydides.

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