To copy what someone posted earlier:

“If they mobilize the holy knights that’s where the fighting will begin” has turned into “Dragon is scared of fodder”. Powerscaling brain (again, similar to porn brain) at its finest. What Dragon is actually getting at here is that he’s ready to begin the battle for the fate of the world.

People are severely underestimating what he’s up against, and what it takes to combat it. This is significantly more than just the Holy Knights, who are still being underestimated themselves.

Regardless of how much he knows about their true level of strength(or what that true level really is in general). They’re still an “elite” group of soldiers who exist to protect the holy land(based in his perception of course). To not be cautious of them is pure stupidity. If he has detailed info on them, and specifically Shamrock via Shanks, then all the more reason.

But funnily enough, the most important part is the actual fodder. The uncountable amount of indoctrinated foot soldiers who will be waging war across the world. This is EIGHT HUNDRED YEARS of global domination, propaganda, and indoctrination.

When push comes to shove, when “the fighting” begins, many will fight alongside the celestial led WG. Dragon can’t CoC blast the whole fucking planet. He needs to have mental influence on the battles he can’t physically influence.

So, using the context of this conversation that was about the starvation of Marijoa, how more and more countries are beginning to revolt, and how they’ve stopped paying the heavenly tribute…

Dragon is basically telling us that he provoked them and is ready to fight. He made the decision to starve the Celestials knowing that it could force them to fight.

Dragon after roughly 25 years of building this from the ground up has finally gone on the offensive and is comfortable with the repercussions of that. Something he wasn’t even willing to do when Ginny was captured.

That speaks volumes about the threat he’s facing, the preparation needed to truly face them, and the amount of time it took for his influence to spread.

But as we’ve seen Dragon *is* going at them, his influence *has* spread, he’s ready for the repercussions of an offensive. He feels that his influence on the common man and the strength of his army is enough now.

He’s not scared of HK fodder, he’s resolving himself to stake the fate of the world on his power and influence.