I guess you missed the parts where they did everything in their power to have Rio spared from the monsters? And where they helped supply the monsters to kill Avalon and cripple Enweil?
Yea, badass opposition there.
Did you miss the part where Rio tried to take MR lands back by force? Its easy to pick elements of a conflict to support a point, its much harder to take an entire conflict and do so. It is one of the differences between blindly obvious and ineffective propaganda and effective propaganda.
