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>It would be more funny to me if this wasn’t the country my ancestors built and bled for.
Rome was still Rome when it collapsed. The people didn't go anywhere. They didn't even change the name of the city.
Its still Rome. The places Rome controlled, were not Roman people, they fucked off and built their own shit with their own people, which is what they were doing before the Roman Empire collapsed.
In the big picture it probably was world changing for a few people, but the Goths were still the Goths, the Greeks were still the Greeks, Sicilians were still Sicilians, etc etc.
Its in the pledge of allegiance to the nation "United we stand. Divided we fall."
In the context of today, we're not unifiable, and unity for unity's sake is a terrible message when your house is divided and invaded by foreign adversaries who you cannot form polity with and your people are unable to expel them because there is no polity of 'your people' to expel them either.
So your empire breaks into compartments that can form cohesive and unifiable polities again and address the contaminants in their own compartments. You are no longer "Romans", but you never were really, only the Romans were Romans, you were the absorbed Goths who served in frontier legions.
Or fast forward, the Germanics of the Midwest (or whatever/wherever you are from).
A unifiable and cohesive polity again.

sic transit gloria mundi

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