We both know you are doing this because there is a vested interest for you to, sir. You told us so yourself.

Likewise, you are free to abandon us to our fate if we are so unmanageable. I wager even some in our group might not object.

I told you I do not blame you. That in your place, I might well have done exactly the same, and be faced with the same outcome. But let's not fool ourselves that either of our sides is acting with righteousness here, shall we? The only interest we have in common is, as far as I am aware, our continued survival. For now.