have you ever played a strategy game where your opponent/rival was getting more powerful by the day and the gap was ever widening between you its a very uncomfy positon since you are desperate for a chance to close that gap or turn it out you are itching but you also know RIGHT NOW, you will lose, but in the foreseeable future you will also lose, so right now is your best bet (because something happened somewhere else, so you try your best) its geopolitics whereever you are not, your rival will…