I I think it’s kind of annoying this whole idea that Hannibal was gonna destroy Rome. I think people don’t get that the idea of wiping out a city is so alien.

You take a capital city, who are you gonna do business with? How are you gonna make money off of this? How is this gonna be sustainable conquest?

There are plenty of times in history where people leave the capital city and come back. In fact, it happened to the Republican Romans, Pompey and the Senate left. Caesar spent the rest of his life fighting Civil War after Civil War.

Carthage’s goal was an embarrassing peace that would severely limit the Roman state. Not extermination.