The sovereign individual talks about the fall of the Roman Empire. The way it’s described, is not the way a collapse sounds. There wasn’t a big event that indicated the collapse. They declared Rome had collapsed a few decades later. In other words, historians might say that the American empire collapsed during Covid. Rome was considered to have collapse after it was no longer recognizable as the Roman Empire. If an American from the 1800s was brought back to life, would he be able to tell that this is still America?