Can EB stop this from happening?

[abou]

That is just what the AI does. It wants to win and it knows that to do that it must attack the human player and does this regardless of surrounding territories, rebels, other factions in conflict, and so on. Apparently a lot of work on this has been done in M2TW, which means the AI will take into consideration economy, army size, allies, and resources before declaring war on you.

[Aut Nihil]

That is just what the AI does. It wants to win and it knows that to do that it must attack the human player and does this regardless of surrounding territories, rebels, other factions in conflict, and so on. Apparently a lot of work on this has been done in M2TW, which means the AI will take into consideration economy, army size, allies, and resources before declaring war on you.

This sounds like sweet music to my ears , lets hope the AI has a "Phd" (or wotever it's called) in M2TW.