What is the future of the European Union? What can we learn from one of history’s greatest military commanders about the eventual fate of those who force empire against the wishes of real people, people committed to freedom? Today we look back to Ancient times to divine the fate of those who seek to impose their rule. King Phyruss’s army, Roman commanders, the Brexit debate, Nigel Farage and the harsh lessons of history that the European Union would do well to heed.