Thankfully, this is a conversation that drunk Strange will likely only remember part of: he won't be able to call whole Childermass out on what he does or doesn't do.

"What else is there to do here?" Strange sighs. "Half of the places we've stopped at have ended up with us fighting something or another. Even the places that were supposed to be peaceful ended up with fighting. Remember the-" oh god, he is too drunk for this word. There's a pause before Strange struggles though, "Athenananum?"

Nailed it? "The library place. And Wismuth and Eden and all the way back to that horrible Matrix place. We're always going to fight things."

And both Lambert and the Ringmaster are too stubborn to come to that realization.