Pax Romana – a dissident’s view

The “Pax Romana”, I’ve just learned, ran from about 27BC to 180AD. Given current events and the alleged plans for a “Pax Americana”, it’s interesting to note how Tacitus described the Pax Romana…

To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.”
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