When you see a take so bad you have to lay down after reading it.
Someone on twitter: *calls Clopes out for starting shit with Sreng and blaming it on Faerghus by saying he instigated a border war*
A person with... an opinion: "As for Sreng, I honestly think it's a little surprising that people are holding this entirely against Claude, even though I do think he was being opportunistic and it being more of an eyebrow raising move than say, accidentally getting Randolph killed. The idea that he "instigated a border war" implies there wasn't already a border war, when in fact, border wars with Sreng haven't stopped for a very long time. Dimitri even mentions that they had just driven Sreng forces back a few months prior, all Claude showing up did was move ahead the schedule of the next attack."
You see guys, it's fine for Clopes to deliberately worsen the relationship between these two bordering countries and make them fight each other for his own gain, because they were already fighting each other anyway! So it's fine that Clopes actively endangered the lives of everyone in Faerghus by making their already struggling military fight a war on two fronts! Because something something Sreng had already attacked before!
That quote is just one of many - to be blunt - shitty takes to be found in a response to someone's feelings about Claude's writing in Hopes. It physically hurt to read through it, it's just so bad.
Okay, sorry to people who believe this, but "worsening already-tense relations between two nations out of a convoluted need to stand face to face with the monarch in charge of one of those nations, all while minimizing the damage caused by the subsequent invasion and directly comparing your own suffering to that of the victims of the invasion" is a far more damning summarization of events than "instigating a border war," despite it being more accurate. So, no, Claude did not start the war, but he poured gasoline all over the fire and cited a desire for peace as the thing that forced his hand. It's not even that he's edgier or darker; it's just bad writing, because it's not even passed of as proper hypocrisy in the narrative itself.
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