That was a wild read. Basically politico going on and on about how various imperialists are pissed off that they weren't looped in on the war plans and using USians stranded in the region as a way of making their displeasure with it sound more selfless. Never mind that they started a war against a country that would have preferred peace, no, no, you see the problem is the poor wittle imperialists being left out of the loop.