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Hello all. I'm a long time reader, first time poster, so I thought I would posit an era of history that isn't that often considered in Alternate History discussion: Post-Fall of Rome but Pre-Byzantine Reconquest.

Assuming the Byzantine Empire is prematurely weakened - say, Justinian I is deposed during the Nika riots - and doesn't try to reclaim the west, would the barbarian kingdoms (such as that of the Vandals, Ostrogoths, and Burgundians) have survived, or were they doomed to collapse sooner rather than later?
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