Actually all those things that you have mentioned here simply reinforces the geopolitical happenstance of the overall situation. That indeed you can't trust your enemy to play nice and that the fog of war is by no means a veil of friendship, perhaps the art of war by Sun Tzu is something you would be familiar with as well?

I can't believe I'm still hearing these pointless defenses about a potential enemy's benevolent intentions from you, either you are them and are on the defensive. Or you wish to debate better, but nobody is that dumb around here to let you get away with convincing anyone that a major geopolitical mover is 'not interested' in meddling. Monoliths spread their influence, its how they become cancerous! If they would concentrate of efficiency and longer term planning towards the future, rather than becoming violent, manipulative or boastful, then maybe I would have nicer things to say. But we aren't in that time-line.