u/ArtemisAndromeda

I'm wondering, could the Invasion of the Day of Black Sun actually realistically end the war. For the sake of this discussion, I will be talking about the smaller invastion that did happen, and not the original plans of the massive invasion which was first proposed. Becouse, if the invasion was successful, all they would do was to capture the capital city, and take the Fire Lord captive. And I mean captive, becouse there's no way Aang would kill him, or allow others to kill him. Even if they would be successful, they would only end up deep inside enemy territory, surrounded and with no supply lines. They would essentially be forced with a choice of taking over the city and enduring a large and brutal siege by the Fire Nation trying to recapture it, or having to retreat, with only point being they would possibly take Fire Lord with them.

And even than, all it does is remove Ozai from the leadership. But the Fire Nation obviously had entire chain of command with general, and Ozai would be just replaced by Azula, or, as far as the Alies know, Zuko who's still on the enemy side.

At best, this invasion could force the Fire Nation to move some of its troops and navy back to the homeland until they recapture the capital, but it would be a temporary setback at best.

And sure, it would deal huge blow to the Fire Nation morale, but I doubt the people would just give up, becouse they lost one battle, no matter where it was. If anything, given how nationalistic and brainwashed the populous was at the time, it's far more likely they would seek out revenge and not peace after the invasion

The Pact in the War of Alliances in the nutshell

If only I wrote it down all the years before

The saddest of betrayals (and how I imagine the talk about it went down)

Such a shame too, they were so pround of it

I'm so annoyed by this. Why won't they sell the real Bruce Miller (Cars 3 RPM car)

I don't bekive the Invasion of the Day of Black Sun would realistically end the war, even if successful