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>Let a planet get nuked for the sake of PR
>Did nothing wrong

Can you even into 4D chess?

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The Imperial people were always going to resent the nobility and their backassward ways and the civil war alone was enough to spark the fire of upheaval. Even if that planet's population was only a drop in the bucket compared to the Empire as a whole, using their corpses as a leveraging tool and much worse lying to Reinhardt and making him think there was a chance to save them is disgusting.

Being morally bad =/= being pragmatically wrong

All it did was make things faster; the process of uprooting the Goldenbaum dynasty and its hangers-on would have still occurred and possibly with less bloodshed.

Logistics > muh morals and virtues

Either remove 2,000,000 now or risk killing 10,000,000. I don't like what happened but it had to be done. Oberstein is a literal 10/10 statesman when it comes to actually keeping the State functioning. You would have cost people more damage with your brainlet feelings.

>t. Rudolf

Then explain to me why it's more noble to have tens and hundreds of millions of soldiers kill each other then to let the foolish nobles kill a couple of millions enabling a swift end to to war.

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For someone to have "done nothing wrong" means that they have been both pragmatically and morally in the right. Oberstein, while he may have had his reasons, clearly acted amorally, and it being "for the greater good" or whatever does not absolve him of that.

Oberstein is a fantastic character and it's a shame we don't have more interesting characters like him.

The Noble faction was propped up mainly by old money, faggots with delusions of grandeur and little practical military knowledge and fucking LARPers. Their heads were so far up their own asses that even with Geiersberg at their disposal, the effort would have collapsed into itself even without them becoming pariahs and Reinhardt and Kircheis knew this.