So the real question is do the bad guys have enough money to weather the storm or buy their way to the top at the end of the road. They have been stealing and squirreling away money for 500 years probably in their little secret clubs. At the tippy top of these secret societies there are probably unfathomable assets. The only way to ensure victory and dominance is to take them out at the top and seize everything. Otherwize they will use their assets to ride a private elevator to the top
So the real question is do the bad guys have enough money to weather the storm or buy their way to the top at the end of the road. They have been stealing and squirreling away money for 500 years probably in their little secret clubs. At the tippy top of these secret societies there are probably unfathomable assets. The only way to ensure victory and dominance is to take them out at the top and seize everything. Otherwize they will use their assets to ride a private elevator to the top