I guess the third-worlder comprador really did double down.

but also it is nice that Oda shows how hollow Sengoku's ideology was considering he ultimately just paved the way for hardliners like Akainu to take over. Sengoku reached the top of the marine hierarchy and actually had less power to shape things then he expected. It's probably also no coincidence that after his retirement he stops giving a fuck and just is stuck on payroll doing nothing (old japanese men doing nothing at companies meme). Oda avoids the pro-cop messaging at the very least by demonstrating that the marines are this huge, world-spanning army that doesn't have full control of itself and so making sure that this military transitions into something progressive is important or else they'll be these huge power vacuums.

Based Dragon stocks going up++++