I urge with every fiber of my being - go watch this video. It explains the brain rot that is Realism - the morally and empirically bankrupt idea that World powers shouldn't interfere in the sphere of influence of other WPs and that smaller states have no agency
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXmwyyKcBLk&pp=ygUNa3JhdXQgcmVhbGlzbQ%3D%3D