It wasn´t. In my first MTW2 campaign with the 1.2 patch (or one of those patches) I thought Kypros (I´ve played so much EB I start calling places after their EB names) would be safe with just a single unit to keep the peace. Two turns later Egypt invades the island.
It´s been like that ever since.
In fact, some people complain there are too many naval invasion. I especially noted this in my Scotland campaign. I only controlled Scotland and Wales, but even so, in 10 years I recieved naval invasion from Portugal, Denmark, France and the HRE (Holy Roman Empire). It just gets ridiculous after a while
Especially Portugal has a love of invading Wales and Ireland with units that are sorely needed back in Iberia. It gets even worse when a lot of the times they just land an army in Ireland or Wales, stand close to the city and do nothing. As long as you keep a sizeable garrison they can stand there for 100s of years while their faction get annihilated, only to suddenly strike after you moved a single unit outside of the city. Annoying really.
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