For a powerful nation, what mattered from beginning to end was not expansion abroad.
It was stability at home.
As long as the inside remained stable, no matter what storms raged outside, they could not strike down or defeat the nation.
That was why so many nations made it their mission to throw other countries into internal chaos: when both sides possessed nuclear weapons capable of destroying one another, shaking the foundations within the other side and making it collapse without a fight became an exceptionally cost-effective choice.
The value of that exchange was truly mesmerizing.
Because Leo had studied history thoroughly, he understood that the Revolutionary Army's greatest enemy was not the so-called Four Emperors, the Marines, or the Shichibukai.
It was the Revolutionary Army's massively expanded body.
If its foundations were not firmly laid, that rapidly swelling shell alone could make the Revolutionary Army take a terrible fall.
So even if the Revolutionary Army had long since become invincible and possessed the power to sweep across the world, the years after it absorbed enormous amounts of nourishment and turned into a huge, tottering fat man would be exceptionally dangerous and warped.
It would be better to eat well, drink well, and train well now, steadily turning that nourishment into muscle and advancing into the New World step by step.
As long as the Revolutionary Army itself did not waver, there would be nothing in this world capable of defeating it.
Thus, internal stability outweighed external tactics.
That was the Revolutionary Army's shift in power; its posture had already changed.
The difference in its weight not only changed how the Revolutionary Army acted, but also how its members thought and considered matters.
Because every move concerned the lives and property of too many people, becoming conservative was inevitable.
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