@wolfwood:
If their goal was to take over america, then no. Killing the president and all his security advisors would do fuck all in the big picture when you still have the entire army and enough skilled personal to replace those that died.
Would they get a morale boost and/or a PR victory? Probably but was it worth all those that died in order to get it. I mean the nobles walk guys like Jean Bart around on a leash, imagine the forces they have at hand for actual fighting. And not to mention that the elder stars themselves are either a force to be reckoned with or have a cadre of world class bodyguards.
Taking a fortress when you dont really have to is just foolish, if you can just take all the territories around the fortress until it's cut off from their supply lines and has to surrender.
It would probably both in the long and short run hurt to lose their political insight, and strategic planning.
But it's not the end of the world goverment in any shape or form. And as long as the countries that make up the union remain intact, then it would in the big picture be a rather small bump.
We are not talking about that tho, we're talking about bringing down a union of 170 countries.
I mean if you were to take over Brussel would you assume that the rest of the european union would fall?
No obviously not, the same thing with the world goverment.
Yes but taking down the country where the people that rule those 170 countries is a big plus. We don't if all all the countries of the WG join because of free will or were force to join. If some countries only join because of force or they feel the WG would protect them . Someone who has power to take down central goverment is sending a message to these people , they can't protect there own country how can the protect yours.
It could also be other counties might wanted to leave the WG but can't find the right time .
Remember unlike fishtiger ,dragon has long time goal he would not leave afterward but would try to kill all of the world nobles . If the are the heart of the goverment and they rule dragon would go into there country and kill all of them . He might even gain some supports of people that don't like the nobles.
It becomes more of a question of what goal does dragon have, does he want to new WG or does want every country to have say in matters.
We need to find more about dragon goals and political insightin to the OP world. To know if would make sense take down Mariejois.
But thing seems to be working out for dragon , all of 3 main marines HQ are wreck and world is going to be in chaos.
@ AdmiralYonkouMt.Bandit Zik
Thirst in normally use with blood lust or without reason . Oda could use many other words that have nothing to with blood lust , like drive , goal ,glory .
I also find it very hard that smoker a person who has been a marine for god knows how many years has never seen the marines on a winning high.
It's clear that Oda is saying right now it's a kill spree for both marines and BB. All they want is the total wiping out of pirates going so far as to leave the wound behind.
All BB wants is to test his power and wipe Marine HQ of the face of planet along with old age of grap and sengoku.