I'm sorry but I hope that France really takes a lot of slaps that will hurt Philip a lot, so as to make him think carefully, before trying to put into practice some of his more criminal ideas ( like the mock trial of the Templars or his in Italy, although I agree that Boniface VIII needed to slightly scale back his ambitions ) after all Edward is only doing what his ancestors have been doing for 2 centuries now, i.e. waging war on their sovereign to make him stop being too presumptuous or greedy for other people's territories ( also there is the " assassination " of Edmund to avenge ) for the rest I doubt that the two contenders can really make enormous conquests against their adversary, at most they will be minor gains ( just enough time to create a coalition of nobles to put against Philip, so as to force him into negotiations and also slightly humiliate him and make him give up so as to create new problems for a while )
after all this is the period of greatest influence and power on the continent ever had by an "" English "" dynasty, so why would they want to give that up ?, I would prefer to see Ned and Margaret continue on this path, to see what a can actually do Plantagenet Great Britain with possessions in continental Europe ( after all, Ireland is not going anywhere, and can be brought slowly and steadily within the kingdom, without however having to give up the ambition of being the most powerful dynasty in Christianity ( after all, in this period the dreams of hegemony, not they were absurd illusions in which only the English believed ( as were the claims of Henry VIII and his successors ) but a concrete possibility )
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