If President Raiko is smart then...

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Kuvira sent her entire army to Zaofu with the exception of a few isolated units spread out throughout the Earth Kingdom. There are a lot of concentration camps where Kuvira is oppressing Earth Kingdom citizens. The United Republic has a pretty strong army that can overrun the lightly defended Earth Kingdom territory and liberate areas.

I hope this guy is using this opportunity to gain ground against Kuvira but I know for a fact he'll keep his troops within Republic City because he is too passive and never takes any action even when the world is in danger from great evil.
 

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Hes not just gonna send in troops while Kuvira is in Zaofu, because even if the slight chance they do fail, Kuvira already warned them that they wouldn't hesistate to attack in retaliation. Remember " anyone who crosses our borders or stands in our way will be crushed" yeah..
 

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I'm guessing he'll do nothing about the situation, as he always does, but all we can do is wait and see. But I'm curious as to what Asami and Sato are gonna contribute towards nullifying Kuvira's reign.

Off topic: I'm dying for a scene in which Katara, Toph and Zuko appear at the end, like when the Masters of the White Lotus appeared in TLAB, and cause some massive damage to Kuvira's army.. :T_T:
 
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Hmmmm no, in fact strategic wise that would be a horrible move.

For starters as far as I know Raiko doesn't have an army. They use the United Forces army, which isn't his personal army. Kuvira is an absolute ruler, she has complete control over her entire army and can move it as she sees fits solely based on her own judgements. Her army is her plaything.

The UF is completely different. It's an army that consists out of people from all nations and as a result all nations have a say in it. It's not an army Raiko should be able to command on his own whims like Kuvira, he needs to discuss the movements of the army with other people. Compare it to the NATO, it's an army that transcends the level of a country, it's an international army. As a result making it move goes much slower than Kuvira making her own troops move.

Secondly the nature of the two armies are very different. Kuvira's army is a conquerors army, an offensive army. She used it to take control over the entire Earth Kingdom. The UF is an army of defenders, a defensive army. When Amon took over RC, they were there to free it as the city got taken over by terrorists/anarchists. The peace in the Earth Kingdom however was restored by one of their own. It wasn't an outside force that tried to throw the kingdom into chaos, but an inside force who restored peace. Many people support Kuvira atm, so just haphazardly marching an international army in there under the flag of 'liberation' would just be considered by many citizens as a pitiful excuse to conquer the land. Diplomatically seen that would be an extremely bad move as long as Kuvira is considered a hero by most people. Even if they would beat Kuvira like that, the vicious cycle would continue and even worsen as it's not like the Earth Kingdom citizens are going to listen to an invading army that just threw down the one person who brought order to their country, order that was instantly lost after she was beaten.

Thirdly it's unclear to which degree the UF uses or can use the railroad network, but I think it's safe to assume that Kuvira has control over most of the network that crosses the Earth Kingdom. This allows her to quickly deploy her troops anywhere, this in contrast with the UF who might not have that luxury.

Fourthly it took Kuvira three years to unify the Earth Kingdom and then the UF need to do it in a few days? Also what point would there be in starting to take few territories back at the edge of the kingdom? If they start a war for control over territories, this war could be dragged out for years, which is the last thing they all want. Also they would be forced to leave troops there to keep it under control, so the further they would go, the weaker they would become. Kuvira has by far the advantage.

So no it would neither be smart, helpful nor would it possibly even work. Zaofu had a large amount of autonomy and was clearly resisting Kuvira, so they could use that as a viable reason to justify deploying troops there, but it's much more tricky for the rest of the Earth Kingdom.
 
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Zaofu should have been protected better, and served as a base for at least some arnaments. Unfortunately, Raiko's the Chamberlain of this tale, so any advanced checks against Kuvira was out of the question, and it was ultimately his blindness towards the nature of Kuvira's activities in the Earth Kingdom (possibly because of the lack of outside officers keeping track of how the Earth Kingdom was holding up, or because those officers became corrupted from Kuvira's influence) and his single focus upon repelling a nightmare Earth Kingdom takeover of Republic City that will cause his nightmare to come true. Instead of tracking Kuvira's actions with outside sources and regular checkups, he trusted Kuvira too closely and naively, and when she claims Republic City (as soon as the weapons are completed) as the stolen portion of Earth Kingdom, his nightmare will come full circle.
 

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So it turns out that President Raiko is the only smart leader left. So much for the others.
How u mean?
Izumi's stance on the situation is reasonable. The Last war the fire nation partook in lasted 100 years.
And going to war goes against air nation principles.
Wu... is wu.
 

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How u mean?
Izumi's stance on the situation is reasonable. The Last war the fire nation partook in lasted 100 years.
And going to war goes against air nation principles.
Wu... is wu.
So you'd rather Kuvira makes a super weapon and continues her oppression of Earth Kingdom citizens? It was stated in season 2 that the Fire Lord is a good friend to the avatar by none other than Izumi's son, General Iroh, when speaking to Korra about the secret plan to send troops to help the Southern Water Tribe rebels. This implied Izumi was more likely to send troops compared to Raiko.
 

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So you'd rather Kuvira makes a super weapon and continues her oppression of Earth Kingdom citizens? It was stated in season 2 that the Fire Lord is a good friend to the avatar by none other than Izumi's son, General Iroh, when speaking to Korra about the secret plan to send troops to help the Southern Water Tribe rebels. This implied Izumi was more likely to send troops compared to Raiko.
And then it's revealed that Izumi is a hard ass like Lin and disapproves of sending her troops to fight nonsense wars. Especially since just like in season 2 this was an internal conflict.
The earth kingdom was always oppressed, whether it be by shin, during kiyoshi's time, azulon during roku's time, ozai' during aang's time, dai lee during aang's time, or the queen herself during korra's time. The only thing they have a right to stop her on is the spirit vine harvesting, and the ethical cleansing(where'd that come from, such didn't teach it to her) but other than that she did what she was assigned to do. Bring stability.
 

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And then it's revealed that Izumi is a hard ass like Lin and disapproves of sending her troops to fight nonsense wars. Especially since just like in season 2 this was an internal conflict.
The earth kingdom was always oppressed, whether it be by shin, during kiyoshi's time, azulon during roku's time, ozai' during aang's time, dai lee during aang's time, or the queen herself during korra's time. The only thing they have a right to stop her on is the spirit vine harvesting, and the ethical cleansing(where'd that come from, such didn't teach it to her) but other than that she did what she was assigned to do. Bring stability.
So Izumi got retconned then as she is nothing like her father or son even though it was implied she was? Didn't young Iroh say that you should ask the FireLord to help in the internal conflict between the two water tribes. He implied that Izumi would be more willing than Raiko unless of course Izumi changed over the timeskip or Iroh simply doesn't know his mother very well. You forgot places like Zao Fu, Kyoshi Island and Omashu under King Bumi. I agree with the rest of your post though.
 
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