Tyrants like building up empires but he doesn't seem to want one- just wants to destroy the west.
"Corpus of a Siam Mosquito"
Steven Sills
Men are fighting here as though these bits of brick and wood are worth a king's ransom or a world's empire, and in a way they are worth that, for the windmill of Gavrelle is one point which will decide a battle or a series of battles upon which the fate of two empires is at stake.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs
It was under such circumstances that Ireland was asked to take part in the Victory Election of 1918. The electors of Great Britain were asked to give a "mandate" to the British representatives at the Peace Conference, and "to strengthen their hands" in exacting from the Central empires and their Allies the full measure of punishment.
"The Evolution of Sinn Fein"
Robert Mitchell Henry