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Historically speaking, the super nova type ending of empires is relatively rare. More common by far is the gradual wasting away.
You are right about history, but history is not a good guide to understanding many aspects of the present era.
The pace of history has quickened and intensified; the whole twentieth century was like a super-nova explosion in history, and it is a guarantee that the present century will make the twentieth look pretty tame.
Most Americans in 1930 did not realize that the world they had known was finished, never to return ---- gone with the wind.
The next few years will drive the point home ---- America as we have known it no longer exists ----- no human agency on Earth can change that fact.
