You and I both came up in Mensa Buorhann. Would we ever keep friends who are harboring our enemies? TKR has clearly so many problems with Hogwarts so they should just go ahead and do the deed. The fact that they are not doing it is I think what made the game boring to begin with. If a friend is helping your enemies, he just thinks you're on the wrong end.
The only reason TKR is not doing it is because they are perhaps afraid of nukes and an ally they will lose - which is something I want to highlight and press them upon. Perhaps their play-style is that in order to maintain their hegemoney and superiority, they will let their friends insult them and accommodate their enemies, but that's a play-style I oppose and have kept on calling them out on.
I agree - TKR is in a pickle of a situation - but for me, and I believe you too, only a coward would act like this. This is what it looks like from my perspective and as a ex-Mensa player, I think you can understand where I'm coming from. If Mensa for example had been doing something similar, I would have just been very disappointed.