Useful tools at best. Meat shields at worst.

Everyone is expendable to them. Including each other. That’s how it’s always been. They attach themselves to whatever or whoever is most convenient and or easy to manipulate.

And if the Commoners and the Wealthy who are outside their little club get riled up. They’ll throw a few of their own under the bus before slipping away to come back and do it all again when the memory fades.