It's not my fault, it's the world's—this seemingly melodramatic statement actually has a much longer history than commonly thought. After all, there are always losers who attribute the reasons for their failures to factors beyond themselves. Thanks to them, the history of the Wisdom Species is never short of scapegoats, with the world being just one of them.
The citizens of the Republic attribute their defeat to a "stab in the back", to the lack of coordination among nations with Charlemagne's military occupation policies, their refusal to kneel and let Charlemagne conquer them, and to the Emperor being too powerful, emphasizing "It's not that we are too weak, but that the enemy is too strong"—all these are their prerogative. Even if the Empire heard this, they would not take it seriously. Allowing the losers to rant is a privilege of the victors. Let the citizens of the Republic say whatever they like, after all, none of their fantasies would come true.
