I'm not entirely understanding what your point is in regards to these quotes. I'm not trying to be rude, it just makes sense to me that if you have to groups of people who both want to see you destroyed, but for the time being are warring with each other, isn't that a pretty sane position to hold to? Like if you had two people that wanted to kill you but for some reason they got into a fight with each other wouldn't your hope be that neither of them would win and be strengthened to come after you...Be honest, wouldn't you kinda quietly hope they just took each other out?