Hopeless strategic situation. Impossible to expand; resurgent timmies with 100,000 troops to the East, unholy alliance of Aragon, Castile, Poland, Sweden, Lithuania blocking off everything else. Desperate attempts to find glory in Africa have only made my empire uglier. If you look closely at my balkan territories, you can see Lithuania's vile tendrils breaching my vassal cushion.
You are Byzantium ..right? Then expand into the Arabian peninsula
shouldn't be that hard really