And that reasoning is the very cause of Atamara sucking so much, good sir.
Well, being suicidal was the reason why Atamara went on such situation. One by one smaller realms did something utterly stupid or over bold, without taking account what will happen next. Red Span, BoM, Norrland, Falasan etc.
Earlier we had real good chanche to crush CE, but alliance collapsed, we did real lot work and effort to make it work... to avoid what had happened all those realms which CE had crushed. We had majority of realms agreed to stop CE... but somehow CE were able to convience southeners abandon support to Carelia... and then north started to crumble as well.
Oh, some comments about Miskels doings:
General & Marshals never spoke to us in Darka, so he rallied nobles to go fight the monsters in the ice.
-- Branded a "troublemaker"
All was well and you gained some real respect... then you started to be a bitch and step over higher ranked nobles. That is what made you trouble maker. Not that you rallied nobles to fight trolls, but that you were jumping on peoples toes, those toes which can kick you.
Complained about your old friend the Duke who logged in once per week to keep his Duchy, but wouldn't appoint lords or maintain his regions.
-- Miskel refused to do maintenance in his duchy, and told others not to. Branded a "troublemaker"
Yes, you increased problems instead of doing what you should do. If someone does poor job, you do poor job too? Way to go...
Problem with Miskel was, that he didnt do well with authorities. You dont know how to lick ones butt to achieve something, arrogance carries you only to somewhere... Then you need to lick some butts to get what you need... after that you can again be arrogant a bit
Just declaring war left and right and pissoff everybody in realm and abroad, would have not made Atamara any better... only kill more realms.