federation is like the fucking hellraiser cube except instead of summoning bunch of hot androgynous angel demons to BDSM you in horrific ways for eternity, you just get a bunch of losers dropping shit takes on your face as you're trapped in the hell known as the fediverse
Huh. Well, he certainly had extraterritorial ambitions for China. He wanted to subjugate and colonize "lesser" people's (Tibet, East Turkestan, Mongolia, etc.) So saying he was an imperialist wouldn't be too far from the mark.