[ Nina looks horrified. Her instinctive reaction is to cry: ] No! [ and she is just enough inside her own skin with Alina to actually do so.

But then -- to be practical. ]

Innocent people starve in war, civilians get killed, but it should never be a goal, an acceptable loss. [ She doesn't know all the consequences of her actions, as a soldier, as a spy. She can only speak to what she's done with her two hands -- and they're red enough already, but she has never directly harmed a civilian and she does not intend to. Especially not her own people, what a horrifying thought. ] It happens, but it's one of the worst things that happens. It's not an acceptable method. We don't prove them right. Gaining our freedom by losing our humanity only looses monsters on the world.

[ Would she go to war with West Ravka to keep it from seceding? ...she would, though she'd hope that would be the last resort. And that was only because East Ravka would be doomed without it. But that wasn't what Alina was asking, not really. This is a clarification, an example to How far would you go? Nina can't help but wonder why this is what she asking. ]