Life was always full of surprises, but if they came at the wrong time, they could turn into shocks.
Whatever the reason, Eastern Kingdom humanity had gained a precious opportunity to strike back directly.
Anyone who understood warfare knew that it was best to keep a war on enemy territory at all times. This not only protected one's own logistics and economy, but also maintained the confidence and support of the entire civilian and military population.
"No matter how badly the front lines are going, no matter how many of our people die there, as long as the fighting doesn't reach our homeland, we can pretend we never saw it."
With that sort of collective social mindset, plus a certain degree of journalistic spin, no matter how badly the front lines collapsed or how long the war dragged on, it could still be touted as a tremendous victory.
Even if some people sensed that something was wrong—why did the front lines get closer to the homeland with every victory, why did fewer and fewer of their people return—as long as the homeland was not endangered and key regions had not fallen, they could keep winning, winning, winning in the news.
Then the war machine naturally would not break down.
Then the war would be nowhere near its end.
Then, in the end, the war might completely destroy a nation. Contrary to what many believed, setbacks and defeats on a nation's front lines often did not end a war. Instead, they made its decision-makers keep raising the stakes.
War was usually an act of the state, but it was also an act of authority by its decision-makers and decision-making teams. Defeat in war often meant a loss of authority and political power. To put it bluntly, whether king or president, their