This is not some Hollywood movie where a political figure has to openly declare war or threaten a country publicly for it to be considered threatening to that country's defensive interests.

The whole essence of geopolitics is based on the notion of ''offensive realism'' - every country attempts to maximize its relative strategic position on the world scale. Think of it like the ''theory of the firm'' in business where maximizing profits is key. In geopolitics, countries don't just sit back when their adversaries become stronger, heck the sooner people throw morals out from the picture of geopolitics the better.

It's not about threats, it's about security. Every country has to make sure that their periphery is favourable to their own strategic interests. To simply dismiss it as ''trying to stir up patriotic sentiment'' is not even an oversimplification, it's wrong from a geopolitical point of view.