NIB is the #2 tribe fighting #1, 3, and 4 and allied or NAP'd with #5 and #6. That's hardly "hugging it up."
You're not accounting for the fact that GAM and U*N have been hidden in the north hardly fighting anyone. Their expansion is slow due to their own fault. We have shoved them back time and time and time again. If you look at the number of players in U*N and GAM and compare them to HIT, you'll see that we have way less members but more points and bash. However, between those tribes they have 350 villages that are mostly protected and are using them to stack NIB and launch long range nukes.
In the last 24 hours since Hit's declaration against NIB, we've wiped 3 nukes (Will wipe one from NIB, one from GAM in a few hours) and have slaughtered a ton of DT. While this was a great opener from us, we all know that NIB has the better players on the world. We only declared war on them due to two of their members aggressively expanding in our provinces and attacking us. Had it not been for UR2Smart and Sir Nukesalot, we'd still be neutral with NIB. They even came to us for a NAP early on in the world, when we offered them terms they declined. Everything that is happening to NIB from HIT is directly on them.
While NIB may win, we in HIT will give it our best and put up a good fight (As we have so far). This world was never fair though. Cocky came over with some of the better players across the worlds. Though there are still a few of us who are not in NIB.