>>17863924
>Closer inspection has shown me that literally every war they fought was defensive and justified, they were responding to attacks every single time.
The point of the War of the First Coalition was to rescue the dethroned French monarch.
As soon as the Revolutionaries scored enough victories to keep their enemies away from Paris, they executed Louis XVI and ensured years of warfare by other outraged monarchs who weren't willing to allow what back then appeared as extreme insolence, and essentially proto-Bolshevism.
You should also not forget that many French were openly against the revolutionary government, particularly in Vendée, Brittany and Normandy