Past Global Analysis – J. R. Nyquist “Thucydides in the Underworld” 11/06/2009.
But I think this is the wrong era for analogies. The better period is the late Republic, and their client states in the near east: Judea and the Decapolis.
Our leaders are falling into the errors of the Gracchi and the Herods. They see themselves as gods, and like wanton boys….