It's not tense, it's catastrophic. Most soldiers have no food, no training, no orders beside dig here and wait for death, we've seen mobiks with effin Mosin Nagants FFS! They're loosing ground everyday, and the domestic situation isn't better with a tanking economy, hundreds of thousands fleeing the country, political and civil unrest and diplomatic isolation even from their allies. The emperor is naked and his empire is on fire.