This. The Western Empire went through an eerily similar series of crisis' as the west faces today. Mass immigration, foreigners seizing the highest mantle of government and ruling against the interests of the Empire, a corrupt and bloated ruling elite, suburban and city squalor, huge inflation resulting in the breakdown of industry. Weak military rulers and a slackening of the legions, even ( if you believe in it) climate change with a lot of Romes wine economy becoming infertile with lowering temperatures, Religious tensions and a disregard for tradition, even a transgender Emperor before it was vogue.
Has a society ever in history extincted themselves based on self-hatred of their own people and willful replacement and supplantation by outsiders?
Historians (if they even exist after western civilization is destroyed) will be studying this for centuries.
Rome?
Also - the people were NEVER asked. Nor allowed to question their genocide.
This. The Western Empire went through an eerily similar series of crisis' as the west faces today. Mass immigration, foreigners seizing the highest mantle of government and ruling against the interests of the Empire, a corrupt and bloated ruling elite, suburban and city squalor, huge inflation resulting in the breakdown of industry. Weak military rulers and a slackening of the legions, even ( if you believe in it) climate change with a lot of Romes wine economy becoming infertile with lowering temperatures, Religious tensions and a disregard for tradition, even a transgender Emperor before it was vogue.
You missed the most important cause. Population decline.