It is good that your grandfathers did not send Joseph Visarianovich to war, or they also had their ancestors in 1812. In our world, you can’t just sit so quietly on the oil pipeline, you can look at some countries in the Middle East as an example. The absence of "imperial ambitions" did not help them at all.
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And our imperial ambitions, of course, helped us a lot :)
If you do not want to sit quietly on the oil pipeline - it is worth adding more constructivity, for example, to invest more money in science and education and develop civic awareness. And to organize a war is for a picture in a telic, real use it does not bring, only harm and sorrow to many people.