บท 2597: Trapping Propaganda

Rui wanted to facepalm so hard. "This isn't even a war between human nations. It's a war between species and civilization. Surely she's not that unreasonable."

"In actuality, she isn't," Prime Minister Edward replied. "The issue is that she can't easily choose such drastic military options after campaigning on anti-war and anti-militaristic sentiments. If she decides to go through with such a drastic military deployment, she will earn the ire of her citizens who have grown sick of war."

Rui frowned. "Even though this is for the good of the nation?"

Prime Minister Edward scoffed. "They don't know that and certainly don't trust their government when the latter says so. This is one of the greatest flaws of the Republic of Gorteau. All its policies need to be weighed against the sentiment of its voter base. A base who knows nothing about politics."

That did indeed sound extremely annoying.