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Didn't Athens fall because their democratic government assigned too little tax money to military? That's what happened in first Polish democracy (XV-XVIII centuries).



It had more to do with launching a boondoggle invasion of Syracuse that ended in total disaster, from what I remember from my Thucydides.




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