[ffgjgf1]

Even before the official collapse the western half hardly had any of these.

The Goths who took Italy for themselves were infact the army of the Western Empire which was basically dead for years now.

The Gothic king simply realized that there was no point in pretending anymore and just decided he’d rather be a ‘vassal’ of the emperor in Constantinople than have his own emperor in Ravenna.

The Goths actually left the local Romans to themselves in general the power of the senate in Rome possibly even increased during the period cause they were no in charge of the Latin population who were still governed by a separate law code to that of the Germans.