What did he do wrong, exactly?

You know the answer to that question.

The better question is if he did anything right

>>14540662
Oh, oh! I know the answer to this one. It's no. He did nothing right.

Isn't implied on the sequels that the real power is on the army and they kinda tolerate the democratic government but don't really listen when shit happens? Kaifun got a point but he's such a dick that his point was lost. He's the Michael Moore of Macross

>>14540646
Take Misa's heart.

>>14540805

Even in SDF itself the UN government post-Unification Wars ran like a junta. See Takashi Hayase badly wanting to use the Grand Cannon despite the Macross trying to get the Zentrans into not attacking humanity anymore.

>>14540675

Good boy, Kronk.

>>14540805
There is a time and place for protest, and that time is not in the middle of a war where the enemy outnumbers you by ten thousand to one and has vastly superior technology to your own. His ass was only around to protest the army because the army protected it. Had he gotten his way, humanity would have been wiped out

>>14541177

Id have just loved to taken him up to the bridge, sitting him in a chair and just watch as he completely shits himself when he's shown first hand what we're fighting

>>14540662
Everything he did right was in the movie.

You'd be forgiven if you forgot he was in the movie, because he barely was. And that's what was right. Barely being present.

>>14540646
He was a pacifist protesting a defensive war-effort. There's pacifism then there's just laying down to die.

Basara was Kaifun done right.