1: Build larger armies
2: Introduce new government officials
3: increases taxes
Russia is by far the biggest landmass in Asia, due almost entirely to Siberia, which stretches all the way to the Pacific Ocean. Much of this area is not inhabited, however.
There were of course several people who held this view, but perhaps the most prominent was Woodrow Wilson, the President of the United States, who pushed for a much more secure Europe after WWI to prevent such things from happening again.