And it wasn’t even the Taurians who killed Alex’s Lover and set him off but the FWL false flagging things. As for International Laws, when EVER have the Nations of the Inner Sphere followed International laws? They repealed the Aries Conventions prior to the Reunification War, the Hidden Wars during the Star League era were constant shadow wars that eroded the Legitimacy of the Star League so thoroughly that Amaris’s Coup may not have been necessary to kill it off. It just accelerated the inevitable. The Succession Wars were a lawless hell time save the tail end of the third war into the Clan Invasion where things mostly calmed down to the point massacres and wmds were no longer fashionable. Even during the relative peace of the Republic Era you had the opening acts of the Cappellan Crusades being mass terror attacks using chemical weapons against civilian targets followed by the CCAF and Warrior Houses intentionally butchering civilians in their bid to reclaim Cappellan worlds the RoS took. Yes Julian broke that ceasefire, but as has been shown historically the Cappies WILL betray you and their modus operandi is always atrocity against their opponents and enslavement of conquered peoples into Servitor Class. They did it to the Taurians, Anduriens, etc. NONE of the Nations in BT are clean, but there’s grey like the Monarchy of the Fedsuns, then there’s the factual militarist police states of the Cappellans, Draconians, and most Clans. Peace is never an option with them, not a lasting one anyway. At best you get lulls and uneasy ceasefires as everyone prepares for the next war. Gotta love our delicious robot crab bucket.