Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-34633327-20180112214926/@comment-10390252-20180118072908

Knightmareace wrote: Speaking of which how would they even be hurting Mistral? Destroying the CCT tower would prevent Mistral from contacting its vast territory of out-of-city settlements except by aircraft or ground caravan (both of which have been shown to be seriously imperilled by targeted Grimm activity). Internal communications and commerce would be crippled, villages and towns would be unable to access central resources or call for help when attacked by Grimm. Potentially millions could die and millions more be displaced. Basically, civilisation in Anima would be crippled and set back generations.

Vale was shown to be in a state of emergency, barely holding on at first and still unable to communicate effectively with the other kingdoms. I'm sure they're having some resource shortages too.