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.
But I don't think we should have an empire, so none of these reasons matter to me.
It's like you're trying to explain why we need to order a certain amount of steel to build a skyscraper, and I keep explaining that I only want a single family house.