then an absolutist interpretation would mean you stop at your border when repelling invaders
Amusingly, that was the interpretation I’ve heard some years ago over at reddit from poles malding about USSR marching to Berlin and kicking nazis out of their country in the process.
Even if we somehow pretend that it was just a “single individual”, with no help, no assistance, nothing, do kindly activate your neurons and pause to think - what kind of socio-economic system would give people an incentive to do something like this? Hmmmmmmmm?!