Yes, excuse my fat fingered spelling mistake…everyone will be dragged into it, that’s where Weimar Republic politics got us the last time, it’s where the communist revolution ended up…..socialism always ends with catastrophe, always has, always will !
That’s not to say empire building is a peaceful endeavour, it never has been but it’s certainly not nearly as lethal save for say WW1 which in reality was more a case of old world arguments and battle tactics encountering modern mechanised killing machines.