It kind of is ironic, since we declared war as quite a surprise for them, but meh. We'd have continued to follow Kalmars into whatever they are planning now and attacking Eques was off limits and i would have even just given it to them since the original plan was to equip Dusturil like crazy and whatever was left would have gone towards Kalmars aims. And then just sit back and wait for the russian bear to eat us. But attacking first and making a deal later? how about no.