Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20151206164217/@comment-10390252-20151207143258

My guess is that Ozpin is holding fire because he knows that events are out of Ironwood's control. Things are going to go bad and Ironwood is going to be humiliated and discredited.

It's disturbing but Ozpin seems to have a fantastic level of confidence that things will ultimately go right at the end of this. Does he has a precognition Semblance of some version (the cog wheels - he can see connections, intuitively understand the procession of events and make a decent stab at predicating the future if he pays enough attention, a bit like Sylar in Heroes)? If I'm right, he's anticipating that Ruby will save the day when Cinder makes her move and will be acclaimed the Guardian by common consent of the entire populace, meaning that he doesn't have to spend a single lien of his personal credibilty supporting her - If anything, he'll be ordered to act on her being the Guardian by the Council itself.