I understand. That's how empires function. But I don't think we should be an empire.
I don’t know how you thought we were going to fight the Soviets ...
The Soviets are no more. We should have shut down our own empire 30 years ago.
When someone mentions the Soviet Union, it is pretty silly to ignore the reason and instead tell them that the Soviet Union doesn’t still exist, but of course you also got into “empire”.
You can’t seem to stay on the topic of prepositioning long enough to learn about it but instead, search for meaningless evading wisecracks.