"At last, our ideals were shattered, not by the royal family's suppression, but seized by the New Federation CIA."
The room fell into a long silence.
"Forgive my presumptuousness, but even if your ideals hadn't shattered, they would only have ended in failure."
Yang Ming spoke slowly,
"In a sense, you were not a qualified leader.
"Revolution inevitably involved bloodshed; it couldn't succeed merely through sit-ins, protests, and international support, or else it would leave various problems behind.
"A revolution needed to be thorough, decisive, uprooting the old order entirely, a comprehensive revolution brought about by the awakening of national consciousness, to reshape a nation's soul. The leader must have the courage to confront strong internal and external regimes with blood.
