Sure, you think that.
In any case, I was mostly referring to the diplomatic situation. Mathias had negotiated an arrangement for them where they would have lost nothing. And then even when they refused it, Highmarch had not taken any actions against them until they started helping with TOs against us, at which point we only aided others TO Supra, since Supra borders our capital. Had they not looted Winkamus, we'd probably not be looting Mashhad right now. Can't say for sure, we were getting pretty annoyed by then already, but that really put everyone on the same page.