jab, waste resources, 
due to expectations

or to be strategically safe and continue to wait in case




reverse psychology dont write down, gives them options to torment me more




then they aren't afraid or war, how?
they are holding us hostage, but what do hostage takers want in this situation?
-territory? safety?

but this torturing us makes it seem they are more likely to encounter counter hostility by not us but their adversaries sort for us


whatever they are just using us as signs, and marking their territory or diverting adversaries to their adversaries
thus they aren't anywhere near here