Territory natural resources and trading routes
Having more land will allow them to have more resources, larger territories, and create trade routes to places further away from them
Yes I do, it is already happening if you didn’t know. Muslims in China are being held in camps and are forced to change their religion or else they will starve to death/die.
The rebels in the Philippines fought against the US after Spain lost the Spanish-American War because the Philipinos wanted indepedence. They first thought that the US would be willing to give them independence, but when they heard the US would make them a colony (or procterate, forgot), they were angry and started fighting for what they wanted
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