>>511011043 (OP)It's the natural end of eastern chest-beating diplomacy. Eventually you have to do something otherwise the already rioting populace will actually try a revolution, and if you were never ready (like Iran was) you end up getting exposed. Russia found out in Ukraine when they couldnt take it in under a year, China is desperately trying to delay any attack on Taiwan as the hardliners how actually believe TikTok propoganda take hold, and Africa in general is just going under a new age of murder-death-civil wars.