User blog comment:ChishioKunrin/"We're in a Time of Peace" Propaganda - The Reason/@comment-10390252-20141019115733

Politics is, by its nature, a shadow game of half-truth, deception and illusion. Put yourself in the place of the Councillors of the four Kingdoms. Things are going bad - bad enough that air traffic between Vale and Atlas now needs military escort. How do you respond to this? Start a very public increase of security and militarisation? Then you would have militant pacifists chaining themselves to gates and corporate barons growling about the damage to the economy caused by the 'fear factor'. If the Monsters don't attack in short order, then you lose the next election.

Rather than risk that, they're using the old political trick of denial, both themselves and in the propeganda they're authorising. Because it would be inconvenient for them to admit that the situation is deteriorating, they're ignoring the deterioration and hoping that it will more-or-less fix itself.

I think that the upcoming battle in the last two chapters of volume 2 will make this very difficult. In the aftermath, expect Ironwood and Ozpin to shoulder the blame for letting 'a minor rabble of foolish discontents' get out of hand whilst Team RWBY are implicitly threatened with all manner of sanctions to keep them quiet.