Did not Rome follow that same path and ended up ?......
Rome’s downfall was sending armies in foreign lands.
Third Reich in Germany went down after sending armies deep into Russia.
Mughal empire in India went down after it tried to conquer more territories southern India.
United States has burdened itself with national debt it can not pay back with wars in Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya.
Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it.