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Originally Posted by Scorch
The Federation also broke the antarctic treaty by violating the neutrality of side 6 (The Riah Republic), so you can't really claim that it's just the Zeon.
Before the war, Zeon aided the Riah republic in seeking independence through raids on Federation ships and so on. The Federation responded by making sure the other sides couldn't break away.
During the OYW, Zeon made the later Titans look gun-shy. However, in a sense, this was really the only option they had open to them. The Federation was garrisoning colonies all over to prevent them from rebelling, while massing military forces at a much higher rate than Zeon could hope to match (30x the resources). Additionally, Zeon was denied some resources which could not be gotten from mining asteroids via the economic blockade placed upon the Republic of Zeon almost immediately upon formation. What can they do when an obviously hostile Federation is massing forces and trying to choke the Zeon economy?
They lashed out in the most horrific way they possibly could. They gassed the Federation garrisons at all of the colonies they could reach, the colonists were "collateral damage". They fought the Federation to a standstill with inferior numbers through their willingness to do anything to win. And they invaded earth to get the resources they needed, as well as to make the Federation collapse. The Federation are commonly portrayed as the good guys, but they have an equal hand in everything that happened by forcing the situation in the first place.
If we're going to stick with WW2 analogies, the Federation is the League of Nations putting huge penalties on the German nation after WW1. It crushed their economy and set the scene for a charismatic leader like Hitler to assume power in the first place. Hitler is directly responsible for many of the horrific things that happened during WW2, but the treaty of Versailles is also to blame for spawning him in the first place.
I find the Federation much more contemptible than Zeon, because they are so disgustingly complacent after the OYW ends. They never learn from their mistakes, they just repeat them over and over. They don't serve the people they're supposed to, they act to suppress them and to maintain their own (the Federation elite) power. Londo Bell is just a less extreme version of the Titans, but it has the same function. By the later wars, the corruption and complacency in the Federation has turned it into a mere shell.
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i believe versailles was just the excuse hitler needed to get ppl to empathise with him. He still may have had similar feelins and goals, tho may have not reached them =/
but really i liked oz :P
is there a place for good ol oz ^^;;
but on topic;
zeon just went about worng with its goals