I also like that when you play risk and there emerges a strong power one could just put enough troops at your border so that it is more easy for the imperial hegemon to attack someone else first so that you live longer, even though teaming up on the hegemon would be the way to bring them down to your level again.

Fascists view local successes ie concentrating migrants and asylum seekers in camps as win - the cruelty is the point - even if it doesn't change the system dynamics and will come to haunt them sooner or later when they themselves are interned in the climate wars by an imperial power (at worst) or the revolutionary troops (at best).