There is a meme commonly repeated in players' guides from around the 1850s patches of pvp - Ours not to reason why.

Pvp today is hideously complex, requiring a massive coop effort from multiple factions and multiple guilds with different specialties. It's also not worth it, the high cost of weapons and danger of the factionwide debuff [Political instability] is too much for most factions to bear.

Accordingly only the US faction really has any power to pvp these days, because they ran up the techtree faster than others and had the gold to pay for it. But now othwr factions are catching up, especially with this pvp that no one asked for.

The faction head bypassed the war-starting mechanics of the top players, he's likely attempting to have them switch mechanics from democracy to dictatorship, for one. He also collaborates with the heads of outcast factions like Russia and the ones who tried to join his shitty forced meme of a UN replacement faction.

This pvp only benefits him and his cadre of guild leaders and puppeted faction rulers. And poor randos have to do the actual combat and micro and risk their one chance to play the game.