User talk:Etzan/Brave New World/@comment-4919678-20140421093423/@comment-6752454-20140421155956

So basically they're completely aggressive to everybody they have a chance, completely isolating themselves, and try to suck up to those they can't beat?

Not to mention most wars tended to be the primary cause of bankruptcy of most nations.

Any warmongering expansionist empires historically tended to be fairly quickly destroyed either by coalitions of angry nations and/or internal instabilities (war exhaustion, unhappy conquered, divided territory if leader dies, etc.), many of the largest rarely outliving their leader.