Apologies, but this is giving me a brain freeze. Previously, you talked about chains of suspicion (Liu's term for it). It was couched in a denial of there bein

Apologies, but this is giving me a brain freeze. Previously, you talked about chains of suspicion (Liu's term for it). It was couched in a denial of there being any expansionist nature of civilizations. All the other things you said were exactly right, but, at the same time, Liu did indeed suggest expansionist tendencies of civilizations as an axiom for understanding Dark Forest theory. And now you're saying expansion is relevant to relative strength or weakness of civilizations? You seem to be clarifying what is meant by expansion. But we can define expansion however. My point was more that expansion, however defined was definitely included among Liu's axioms.