No decision yet on the new emperor. Is it going to be the old Emperor? Is it going to be a complete departure? The question here is how can you tell from 2000 years away? We're in Londinium where it's the 1st century A.D.. What we know is not democracy—we know authority.
And I want to point to an authoritative event in these last days in the 21st century that may or may not touch on the new emperor decision making in America. This is my observation of the success of Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel and the IDF, to fight like Romans. How did Romans fight? Relentless for total victory.
No negotiation. Capitulation is the only thing they wanted to hear. And then they decap. They do not imprison; they decap, forever.
Example: Vercingetorix, who rises to be the hero of the Gauls against Caesar, gathering together the tribes and taking on Caesar's legion. Eventually, after several battles, he retreats with his soldiers to Alesia, somewhere in France today. They are surrounded by the Roman legions who dig a wall and a trench.
They surround the city, which is itself walled, and the reason they do that is they starve it to death. Vercingetorix realizes there wasn't enough food to feed both his soldiers and the population. Help is said to be on the way. The word is gone out to the Gallic tribes to come to the rescue of Vercingetorix.
So he's got to buy time. He sends the population out, thinking that Caesar will accept them. Caesar does not. They both sit in their citadels watching this. The population of Alesia starve to death in the fields between. That's Roman.
My observation about Rome in the 21st century: it's not attractive. It certainly doesn't meet the standards of the United Nations or of peacekeepers around the world, but it's recognizable to us in the 1st century A.D..
Is it purposeful, or am I projecting too much?
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Israel and the Roman Way of War