Then again, he's kinda turned into the living avatar of "the ends justify the means"...
Ehhhh....not really. If that were the case he wouldn't have given a !@#$ about looting methods or burning food. Instead we were hamstrung for ages, restricted to looting tax gold and
stealing food. We would have won the southern war much faster if we'd been plundering Aenilia's lands the whole time, for example.