Honestly? It clicked while I was sweeping up crumbs under the kitchen table. It wasn’t just one massive blow that knocked Athens out. Nah. It was death by a thousand cuts – a slow bleed. Like that small crack in your phone screen that gets a little bigger every time you drop it, until the whole thing just gives out. They kept making these smaller mistakes, one after another, ignoring ... https://fairytales.cc/lessons-from-athenian-empire-collapse-why-powerful-states-fail/