“I only think we may need to keep our options open in the future,” she says, mild as you like, “but having said so I would be more than happy to speak instead of a happy future than our overburdened present.”

Future endeavors, indeed.

“If the war were over tomorrow,” she proposes, “and the Divine saw sense, and we did not pivot at once to another front of war. Where would we start?”

From her tone, this is at least intended in light-hearted spirit.