It makes more billions for the billionaire oligarchs. They don’t really care about empire on any other way.

Yes, but see: If only they manage to kill everyone else before then, nobody will be around to notice and ridicule them for their failure.

Aww, for me?

Personally, I’d go more for the argument that attenuation cannot amplify. No matter the outcome, no matter what the present “now” has become, if we had been positive it could be better right now.