[BiglyCommentary]

The conquest of Gaul seemed like a blatant hotile takeover.

[Verginius Rufus]

The conquest of Gaul may have cost a million lives and caused a lot of Gauls to become slaves, but it made Caesar very wealthy, gave him the chance to built up an effective and loyal army, and set the stage for his hostile takeover of the Roman government.

What's not to like? And he did it without a single Dominion machine.

[Reily]

I said there were exceptions. However the Romans might counter and point out it the number of times the had to fight wandering\migrating Gaulic tribes in early Republic days like Brennus. Also Hannibal’s army had a lot of Gauls in it.