Read this excerpt about a viking invasion in england.

as [the vikings] were going to their ships, the english army should have come back into the field to prevent them turning inland again. and that’s when the english army went home. . all the council was summoned to the king to determine how to defend the realm. but whatever was decided on did not last even a month. in the end, there was no man prepared to call up his forces. everyone ran off and did the best he could.

what does this excerpt indicate about the general state of european military power at the time of that invasion?

the military needed from the roman empire.

the military was powerful enough to stop the invasion.

the military was not strong enough to protect europe.

the military was full of strong, independent leaders.

The military was not strong enough to protect Europe.

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the dissolution of the soviet union[a] occurred on december 26, 1991, officially granting self-governing independence to the republics of the soviet union. it was a result of the declaration number 142-н of the supreme soviet of the soviet union.[1] the declaration acknowledged the independence of the former soviet republics and created the commonwealth of independent states (cis), although five of the signatories ratified it much later or did not do so at all. on the previous day, december 25, soviet president mikhail gorbachev, the eighth and final leader of the soviet union, resigned, declared his office extinct, and handed over its powers – including control of the soviet nuclear missile launching codes – to russian president boris yeltsin. that evening at 7: 32 p.m., the soviet flag was lowered from the kremlin for the last time and replaced with the pre-revolutionary russian flag.[2]

previously, from august to december, all the individual republics, including russia itself, had either seceded from the union or at the very least denounced the treaty on the creation of the ussr. the week before formal dissolution, 11 republics signed the alma-ata protocol formally establishing the cis and declaring that the ussr had ceased to exist.[3][4] both the revolutions of 1989 and the dissolution of the ussr also marked the end of the cold war.

several of the former soviet republics have retained close links with the russian federation and formed multilateral organizations such as the commonwealth of independent states, eurasian economic community, the union state, the eurasian customs union, and the eurasian economic union to enhance economic and security cooperation. on the other hand, the baltic states have joined nato and th