In the history of his original world, the Bavarian Government had also believed a public trial could bury a local political agitator. The prosecutors had prepared extensive material to prove that the man was the soul of the unrest. Yet that very claim had thrust a defendant who had originally been less prominent than Ludendorff into the eyes of the entire nation.
Lin Cuo did not care what that man had later built, nor did he intend to imitate his ideology.
Once someone was put before the entire world, declared the central figure behind every event, and necessarily allowed to speak, the judges might no longer remain at the center of the stage.
The E.U. wanted to pin W-0, the refugee camps, the Apollo Chariot, Brain Raid, technology leaks, and diplomatic failures on Leila.
Good.
The more they piled onto her, the more important she became.
A young female officer backed by the Marukal Consortium, educated by the E.U. military, who had protected W-0, been abandoned by Paris, and then detained by Great Han could serve as the perfect link between the E.U.'s idealists, military reformers, refugees, young students, female voters, and ordinary citizens disillusioned with the Committee.
Besides, she was beautiful. Her reputation, her family, her military experience, and even her saintly image could all be put to use.
Whether she herself was willing mattered, of course, but not enough to halt the entire political process.
He wanted the E.U.
He wanted the woman too.
Most importantly, after the E.U. joined the future Human Community, it could not remain as it was now, with a single military order passing through more than two hundred people, the Three Commanders, and seventeen committees, only to produce a joint declaration that left no one responsible.
Leila could serve as the new interface.