If your comment's addressed to me and not Alfred E. Neuman, then I'd admit that problems are a matter of scale. An over-heated, over-populated, finite planet ranks bigger than the colonial war-making of a crumbling empire. Except that war-making intended to draw lines of major regional influence over resources is precisely linked to the fact that the planet is finite, and it's exactly the reaction we may reasonably fear and deprecate on the part of countries we might naively hope would choose other policies.

So yes, the fact that the crumbling empire can still call on its vassals who should know better, and gather them under the limp figleaf that is NATO (or some associated whatnot like ISAF), and get them to agree publicly that the civilized world as we know it will disappear if we don't all fight an unwinnable war (and buy stuff from the empire's weaponry store while we're about it), does seem to me (as an unwilling vassal) to feature as a minor problem, yes. Forgive my weakness :-)