"Perhaps you are dissatisfied with the conservative strategic decisions we made back then. To put it plainly, our choice to hold our homeland did indeed allow the Pacific Campaign to collapse, and the fall of many Pacific island nations was related to it. Many people believe that if we had taken a gamble back then, the situation might have been much better than it is now. I do not deny that possibility."
The Eastern Kingdom leader, now over seventy, the Song Clan elder who had pushed through the Nirvana Plan all those years ago, appeared on television once more.
This was not a nationwide address, but an internal briefing for Eastern Kingdom administrative bodies, judicial institutions, and military organizations.
Lu PingAn had met the old man in person, and even he had been surprised by how frail the man had become. Seated in a wheelchair with an IV drip, the old man seemed so fragile that the spark of life within him could vanish at any moment.
Perhaps at such a time, the resistance to pressure and the sheer expenditure of energy required by that position truly were beyond what an ordinary person could bear.
This was the second time Lu PingAn had seen one of the old man's major internal addresses. This was one of Eastern Kingdom's traditions. The East did not overly indulge in hyping up concepts or using nationwide frenzy to stir emotions, but that did not mean "propaganda" was unimportant.
On the contrary, their path was completely different from that of Western countries that needed votes. Those countries needed to hype concepts to win votes; once the voting was over, the policies, reforms, and slogans no longer mattered. There were countless reasons and excuses to render them irrelevant. Perhaps those politicians truly were excellent speakers, but