I mean, she's a terrorist, so yeah.
Because she's a villain, like her father was.Why go around deliberately massacring random families, targeting women and children in the region she literally grew up in, families she personally knew and likely befriended over the years, when she could easily have them work as laborers in the Deadmines, for example?
But we live in an age where people feel sorry for serial killers just because they had a sad sob crying childhood, as if they were the only ones with problems in their lives.
So that's why you see the vast majority in this thread defending the Defias. Even though the Story made it clear that they are morally wretched.
The Kirin Tor does the same and the SI:7 recruited a goblin, so that's not actually unique.Which brings up another point - the Defias for all their flaws at least tolerated other races, including Horde races, in their ranks. They included goblins, tauren, blood elves, Forsaken, ogres, hobgoblins, gnolls, koboids and even murlocs as legitimate members of the Brotherhood. That makes them almost unique among human organizations in the Eastern Kingdoms. And indicated that those from Horde races at least saw their cause as justified.
And yet he went to war in Northrend, risking his own life at the very doorstep of Death, to defend Stormwind and all of Azeroth from servitude to the Lich King. While the Defias cut-throats hid in a shadowy hideout like cowards and harassed peasants.Vanessa saw Varian as a monarch who "shrugs at our plight".
He literally sent the gunship that allowed the heroes, Thrall, and the Aspects to pursue Deathwing to the Maelstrom.I don't know if he did anything to fight Deathwing directly during this Cataclysm,
He also personally organized a military invasion of the Twilight Highlands to crush the Twilight's Hammer.
Aside from the fact that the Lich King and Deathwing would kill everyone if they had their way, so Varian was heroic in leading the wars against them?But why would the average farmer in Westfall care about any of these things?
Do you know what the average Westfall farmer should care about? They should care about the fact that it was Edwin VanCleef and his thugs who ruined Westfall, a fact that Vanessa conveniently forgot to mention, during her melodramatic speech to the peasants.
This is not cited as the reason for the economy collapsing. The war against the Lich King was. All Varian made was an empty declaration which he didn't pursue, since he was fighting side by side with the Horde at Icecrown.He declared war on Thrall and the entire Horde in the Undercity,
Moira was a tyrant, so Yes, it was the right thing to do.He then led a group of SI:7 agents to Ironforge because HE suddenly decided it was the right thing to do.
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The resources were depleted fighting the Lich King, this is the official reason given. The only alternative, letting the Lich King win by not retaliating, was not a good alternative.