What's this? Impartial advice from a neutral third party?
Let's be realistic - if we lost Smei Tsu one week the Kumo Crew would be preparing it the next. It's a high value CC system close to your border. The best use of our time is holding our high value systems in lieu of more favourable conditions in the future. The current Patreus strategy is sound. Trying to exploit dissent within our ranks isn't going to work, pirate.
You are confusing not fortifying a system with losing it to Tumoil.
Lots of systems are undermined every week, and none of them are actually lost.
You even get a week after a system goes into Turmoil to fortify more and keep it