Umm, actually there is something the commie countries can do to stop us, but after they do it, and we retaliate, the entire world would be a slowly cooling pile of radioactive ash, so nobody would really win there...........
Have you ever played Medieveal: Total War Kilam? If you play as an Islamic religion country, and one of your provinces gets conquered, you can launch a Jihad to recapture the territory. But, they cannot be used to go on offensive campaigns, unlike the Catholic countries that can use the crusade.
Medieval: Total War is one of the most historically accurate games I've played yet...but about Jihads it's partially wrong.
Read up on Saladin and the Third Crusade.
I'm assuming the reason Jihads work like that in MTW is because they can't rightly make a feature like that in a game like that be defensive, it would HAVE to be offensive, and therefore, reclamation against foreign invaders would be the stand-in for defense against invaders.
