I hope Margret won't betray Annika, if nothing else. As for Hans, we don't know yet how he's selling the war to his people. If he spins his reasoning right, he may just rally them into supporting it.
[She'd love to say that Hans is an unrealistic character, but how many real wars have been started over petty disputes or desires? She has more than enough personal (well, inherited) experience to confirm that kings like him exist in reality... and, as Jade said, it's generally the common people who suffer for it.
As for those, despite what she said out loud before, she knows all too well that public opinion can indeed be swayed in many overt or underhanded ways (sometimes, albeit rarely, even in willful self-sabotage). Yet it's impossible to turn everyone around - there will always be some remaining loyalists.(Unless the instigator can literally change their minds, and that's not the case here.)]
Annika moved too fast because she has bad advisors, frankly. Morton is clearly only interested in his own benefit - once the war machine in churning, his company will reel in huge profits.
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[She'd love to say that Hans is an unrealistic character, but how many real wars have been started over petty disputes or desires? She has more than enough personal (well, inherited) experience to confirm that kings like him exist in reality... and, as Jade said, it's generally the common people who suffer for it.
As for those, despite what she said out loud before, she knows all too well that public opinion can indeed be swayed in many overt or underhanded ways (sometimes, albeit rarely, even in willful self-sabotage). Yet it's impossible to turn everyone around - there will always be some remaining loyalists.(Unless the instigator can literally change their minds, and that's not the case here.)]
Annika moved too fast because she has bad advisors, frankly. Morton is clearly only interested in his own benefit - once the war machine in churning, his company will reel in huge profits.