There’s no way we could be the baddies — we have freedom and democracy and all that is good and they have illiberalism and authoritarianism and all that is evil! That leaves two options: either the country is being hypnotized by the evil authoritarian dictator, or everyone down to the last baby is ontologically evil!

They hope to destabilize the region, mess with Asian countries’ projects of economic development and have another opportunity to sell weapons so stocks go up.

Imperial necromancy causes these ghouls to live unnaturally longer for every martyr they kill to make line go up