They’re manufacturing reasons to start a conflict. Like the reason the Vietnam War started was because a Vietnamese fishing boat got too close to a US war ship which was seen as an attack, then the US war ships mistook a the sonar ping off a school of fish as an underwater attack and used that as justification to escalate a war with Vietnam.
Romulans are probably doing the same thing, they’re using their cloaking tech to secretly parol much closer than they should be, and constantly looking for the Federation breaking the neutral zone rules to turn the interstellar community against the Federation. Basically they’re itching for the Federation to throw the first real punch so the romulans look like the victims.
They’re manufacturing reasons to start a conflict. Like the reason the Vietnam War started was because a Vietnamese fishing boat got too close to a US war ship which was seen as an attack, then the US war ships mistook a the sonar ping off a school of fish as an underwater attack and used that as justification to escalate a war with Vietnam.
Romulans are probably doing the same thing, they’re using their cloaking tech to secretly parol much closer than they should be, and constantly looking for the Federation breaking the neutral zone rules to turn the interstellar community against the Federation. Basically they’re itching for the Federation to throw the first real punch so the romulans look like the victims.