User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail Chapter 488: The Two of Us, Always, Review/@comment-73.191.17.103-20160609020656/@comment-24367018-20160609134417

Congratulations to the first anon for making such a stupid fucking statement that has me joining in on this blog, even though I've tried avoiding it, because it needs addressing.

A war is a form of diplomacy, believe it or not. It is a means of sorting out a dispute between two ideals. Brandish clarified that all this war seems to be is mass colonialism from Alvarez' side because of Zeref's desire to obtain Fairy Heart and subsequently kill off Acnologia with it. So to call it a war in the traditional sense isn't quite correct.

Now let's draw some paradigms here, because there are two glaringly obvious ones that imbeciles seem to be missing. The first paradigm between these negotiations between FT and August, is that of Operation Valkyrie that was prematurely enacted in 1944 in Nazi Germany. Anyone familiar with World War Two will know what I'm about to say. Operation Valkyrie was the Nazi's continuation of government plan during civil uprisings within Nazi Germany, that was prematurely activated by the anti-Nazi soldiers who had attempted to assassinate Hitler - 'the most powerful man in Germany at the time' now just swap Germany for Alvarez, Hitler for August and you can see where I'm going with this - and seize control of Germany from the Nazis and the SS. Would anyone like to guess how well that went? It went fucking atrociously because the bomb that was meant to kill Hitler failed to do so - now swap bomb with knife, and Hitler with August again - and as soon as the three men that instigated the plan were found out by the SS, they were all tried and executed for treason. Now had they made sure Hitler died rather than assume the bomb had killed him, things may have gone better for them. But they, like Mest, assumed their plan was perfect, and they paid the price for it. Now Natsu, and Lucy are going to pay the price for Mest's idiocy because his plan was so hilariously flawed. That's the first paradigm.

Now for the second one. Let's look at the Syrian Civil War and draw some comparisons between that and Alvarez' invasion of Ishgar. With that war, the peace negotiations between NATO, Russia, the Assad Regime and the 'moderate' rebels are occurring in the ever neutral country of Switzerland; specifically in Geneva. Lets call NATO, Russia and the Assad Regime Alvarez, because they're the ones with the most power, and the moderate rebel groups the guilds of Fiore. What Mest has done is basically set a bomb off in the negotiations hall in Geneva trying to save his people by killing a group of ambassadors. What would that have likely done? It would've turned the elements of NATO that were in support of the moderate rebels - Brandish - against them, angered the nation that was already bombing them into oblivion - August - and ended the peace talks completely and utterly, with the only chance of them being restarted once the moderate rebels have been all but whipped out. End of story and paradigm.

THAT is what you're missing, you idiot anon. This is why anon's shouldn't be allowed to comment on blogs. Hope you enjoyed your brief lesson in the history of negotiations and theoretical warfare, don't bother commenting again until you understand what negotiations actually are.