Why would you start a massive civil war over a misunderstanding

Why would you start a massive civil war over a misunderstanding
Is he genuinely retarded?

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As somebody who has heard of, but otherwise knows next to nothing about this, but who does have some understanding of actual history, I can say that based on just what you said, it doesn't sound too unrealistic.

Pride, he'd already kneeled once so he'd rather die than do it again

>Is he genuinely retarded?
Yes. Literal Mauritanian IQ, like all of that series' characters.

Power grabs, paranoia, long communication times. Not an unrealistic view of what being a viceroy was actually like, more than one of them ended up in prison, executed, or leading rebellions.

>t. pridelet

Pride and ego will make you take illogical actions.

>Pride and ego
Are those different things?
Outside of the non-English and psychological mumbo jumbo definitions of ego, that is.

He wanted to 'ave a go at it all along. The only thing holding him back was his pride and honor. With those erased by the frame up, he cast the die, and rolled low.

Boredom. He and Reinhard both realised that they probably going to get another real war for the rest of their lives, so they went at it even through they both knew it was caused by the manipulation of a third party.

>massive civil war over a misunderstanding
For the same reason americans hate Trump and vote Biden, people hate other people

>massive

It was a single planet rebellion

He was basically dragging out into the light everyone who still have mixed feelings or no true loyalty to the Kaiser. He built an following up of these people so in his mind either A) he wins and shows he is better, B) he loses and in doing so rids the Kaiser of the factions within that aren't true subjects, or C) Do both.

This is basically why as he was bleeding out he shot truniht, he mentioned he finally cleaned all the rats out. Regardless his outcome he saw every move as a win, so he did it.

Well someone needed to take Reinhardt out of war retirement, and it couldn't have been a well adjusted man such as Mittermeyer. And Reunthal is the only man both crazy and genius enough to knock some sense back into Lohengramm.

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>be an incredibly high ranking Admiral
>respected by the Kaiser
>as close to friends with the Kaiser as possible
>spend years and risk your career and life on his dreams
>prove to be a loyal companion
>some retard tells the Kaiser that you've suddenly done a 180
>Kaiser demands you come prove your loyalty to him
>it is an insult to yourself and everything you have done
>you could easily bend your knee again but you'd be a lesser man for it
>fuck it you're not a bitch
>take on an empire

He'd been mulling the idea for a while, but never quite got together the gumption to go for it. When the misunderstanding happened, it gave him just enough of a push to go for it.

He's the biggest chad in the anime

Nah Mitt was 100% loyal to the Kaiser which is why he struck down Job rather than let him live and poison what was built. The whole civil war was around dragging out all the subversive elements left over from the long battles and wars, in this way Kaiser would have his fights AND he would have proven his loyalty be simply killing those who started such talk.

When he got mortally wounded he knew he bit off more than he could chew, returned to FPA's capital and wrapped up the last of the known problems. He fell on his sword rather than admit he failed at his grand plan by luring out the rest of Tera followers.

did you not watch the rest of the series before? he always wanted to rebel if given the chance

He was ready to rebel if Kaiser didn't keep his word and ended up restarting the same old empire they just defeated. By the time this civil war started the Kaiser had proven himself to anyone who could have been a skeptic.

and most of the series' unironical fans

Because it was the most socially acceptable time he would ever have to do it. If he didn't do it then then he never would have been able to live down trying.
That's it. That and muh pride but even his pride wouldn't let him pull this shit 20 peaceful years later, had to be now before the fleets were decommissioned/mothballed/paired back and the soldiers sent home.

He already had rebellious tendencies, the misunderstanding just amplified those urges.
It's like how a depressed people will kill themselves on a whim if the right circumstances are aligned, or how some people who are disgruntled with their job will explode one day for a seemingly tiny misunderstanding.
These sentiments build up over the years, people are not always rational