“If I had to guess I would say it was because someone” (pointed look at Tommy) “griefed George’s house.”

“Mmmm, that doesn’t sound like something I would do! But whoever did do it was super cool and committed a super cool robbery that was not a griefing.”

“You literally— at the trial, you literally admitted to doing it.”

“Wait, did I? Naaaaaahhhh that can’t be right.”

"There's walls for one robbery?"

“…Yes? Tommy’s the Vice President, what he does reflects on our nation, and George is the King of the other nation—the Greater Dream SMP—that’s what the meeting today is going to be about, is deciding on a consequence for Tommy so that Dream agrees to take the walls down. I… have hope, that we’ll work something out peacefully. You can come if you want.”

That makes more sense. And does not make him like Dream any more than he already does.

"I am willing to help, even though I do not have the best handle on the situation here."

“I don’t have the best handle on the situation either, I’m fucking—I’m on probation, Big J.”

“Look on the bright side, if today goes well you could be off it soon.”

"We can hope so."

“It’s fucking bullshit, man, Dream’s not— he just showed up and suddenly we have to do whatever he says? The whole point of declaring independence from him was that we’re better than that. We’re not going to— to hurt each other, just because he tells us to.”

“Well what else do you suggest, then, Tommy? Fighting him? How is that, how is that not going to end with people getting hurt? We’ve barely recovered from the last war, we can’t afford to take him on right now.”

“We could do it! We’ve done it before! And this time we have— we have more people, we won’t have a traitor, we can try to get the Badlands on our side, we could have spent the past week preparing instead of forcing me to write reports—“

You don’t have two lives to throw away this time, Tubbo doesn’t say. “Tommy. We are not starting a war with Dream unless it is absolutely necessary. That’s final.”

"He should not be besieging an independent nation because of the actions of one person. --though that is much easier to say than make so."

“Right, I would love for him to not be, but given that he is, we have to be realistic here.”

"--I may have an unfairly low assessment of his likelihood to listen to reason."

“Well, if he doesn’t listen to reason it won’t really matter because we’ll all be screwed, but I really do think it’ll be okay as long as Tommy doesn’t fuck it up for himself.”

"We'll just have to hope for the best. Plan for the worst, also, but hope for the best."

“Yeah.”

“Your plan for the worst had better not involve fucking exiling me.”

“…It’s an option. I will do everything I can to make sure it doesn’t come to that, right, but if Dream really wants you gone… we have to at least discuss it.”

“You know, if the roles were reversed, I wouldn’t even consider it. It would never be an option for me. You’re— you’re my best friend, I would never fucking do that shit.”

“I’m the President, Tommy. My duties require me to consider all possible options, not just the ones I like. I’m not going to exile you, just— just behave for Dream and I won’t have any reason to justify that.”

It's... Something, to know that even somewhere as foreign as here, some things are the same. "I will do whatever I can to prevent that."