Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-4141313-20181110034633/@comment-26018514-20181115185921

BlizzardDragon wrote: ChishioKunrin wrote: Yeah, basically, Cinder's speech was designed to make people suspicious of Atlas The Atlas part was obvious enough, especially with Yang's line in End of the Beginning

... I had just thought the Mistral part was either an attempt of Cinder's to humanize herself to the Audience in Amity Colliseum…

Salem's plan did indeed backfire because of Cinder's Murder Boner overriding common sense. Then again though, it already had a monkey wrench in it thanks to the Menagerie Militia heading there....

My major argument was against the idea of World War II happening. It would be so much easier for Salem to just unleash a pack of Grimm on Atlas and Vacuo in her quest to gain Creation and Destruction.

The real challenge is fighting her forces. With Vale all but gone and Mistral still in a state of disarray, that just leaves Atlas and Vacuo.

I called Vacuo Social Darwinisim on Steroids because of Qrow's line in the WOR

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So with Vacuo being Vacuo, that just leaves Atlas. The only way to really fight off Salem then on a larger scale would be if Ironwood revealed Salem's existance to Atlas and they convinced the remnants of Remnant of the greater threat.

Issue is, that carries a lot of issues thanks to Ozpin's Ignorance is Bliss plan.

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 * 4.4. There will be people thinking they have a better chance of living under Salem and jump ship to her side.

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 * Option 1: Continue the Secret War and fight her outmanned, outgunned, and hope for the best.

So while there will be no World War II, Remnant is in for a massive war sooner or later. The menagerie Militia only happened because of Adam's revenge plan failing, had he followed the plan, not only would Haven have been destroyed on a Faunus's watch, but destroyed by Faunus, this would have lead Menagerie to be destroyed by Mistral, which actually hasn't lost a single part of their standing militia/police force, just their mercenaries.
 * Option 2: Reveal the truth and risk all four of the caveats listed above.

Salem cannot be killed, and neither can Ozpin, Ozpin's "plan" only does 4 things;

1. keeps her from being imprisoned

2. Keeps himself from being imprisoned

3. keeps her from becoming an eternal queen

4. keeps humans from despairing that they can't do more to stop her

Nothing changes these possibilities because of his silence, they are only consequence of her becoming public knowledge.