Historian Compares Cuba’s Current Blackout Crisis to the Fall of the Roman Empire: ‘A Republic at the Breaking Point’
A prominent history scholar is drawing eerie parallels between Cuba’s ongoing nationwide blackouts and the slow collapse of ancient Rome’s infrastructure, warning that ‘when the lights go out, empires crumble.’ In a viral thread, the historian claims these outages are not random failures, but a hidden historical pattern of resource mismanagement seen in every fallen civilization—from the Roman grain dole to 1970s Soviet bloc stagnation. With Havana in darkness for 12-hour stretches, this #cuba news comparison is fueling a debate over whether the island’s socialist model has hit its terminal stage, echoing the late Roman Republic’s descent into chaos.