After harmlessly crossing your border you take our friendship hostage guarding your perimeter with sandbags of arbitrary etiquette a no man's land of manners separates us you snipe from your defensive position so I retreat and start strategizing. Consulting my generals to discuss your tactics they advise me to start stockpiling weapons and to start looking for weaknesses.
There is a counteroffensive to your intentions. While you were destroying my satcoms a successful infiltration of your command center was accomplished. Once your defenses were understood your flanks appeared vulnerable. Blind spots were revealed.
You only sign a treaty once your resources start depleting then you ignore the rules I'm reading to give me a beating. So I'm building up my arsenal and enriching my uranium in this centrifuge where we spin in circles. My nuclear option is prepared and capable. Pacifism is more appealing than violence but when you try to erase who I am I must take a stand.
Armed with an ability to attack I get a warhead on my shoulders found from old schematics you shared with me while I fought your enemies. They were never thrown away now they're dusted off and revisited to make your walls crumble and incinerate you flag.
Your nation starts hiding from what they were once confiding after my nukes obliterate your infrastructure. Rebels and runners fill fallout shelters and basement bunkers hiding from the radioactivity in the air.
Everyone's death equals success proving I'm best so I develop a permanent wartime economy and fire missiles mercilessly. There's no difference between fighters and civilians because some insurgents are chameleons so I **** them by the millions. The more weapons I get the more needless death until the only nations left standing are those that have stockpiled weapons of their own.