being even the slightest bit pressed back from your 1000 military bases around the world, many of the in the literal faces of your declared enemies (but also trading partners, wtf) is like minas tirith under siege, the end of everything.

just like the line has to go up constantly, so does the empire, or it's immediately under dire existential threat.

psychotic.

Those are a lot. Damn. I usually make fun of libs for being overly verbose, but those two sentences contain a neutron star's worth of condensed bullshit.

When they say the Atlantic do they actually mean the Pacific? I don’t understand why Russia would overlook the Atlantic geographically…