We have the yanqui empire to thank for that. Pretty much the only reason they landed at normandy was to prevent a Red Europe, since the nazis were on their heels after Stalingrad (1.5 years before Normandy)
I love that one so much. You and I are really close on a rewatch, my partner and I just started season 4 a week ago. Get ready for some of the best trek ... really best TV ever made.
They've seemed to enjoy settling into their place as the bully's little brother. It'll take a few years of getting put down and treated like shit for them to assert themselves.
You kinda have to ignore replicators for most of this to make sense. They should've just let replicators be either microwave ovens or 3D printers instead of being apparently able to replicate anything.
He just adopted the exact same line as his party.