Stagger did speculate as to the source of the misunderstanding, but his initial sentences were quite clear. To quote him: "A defense implies I'm trying to defend anything we actually did. No, I don't think GOONS made it up. I think KenM had a misinformed view. Milton would know what we actually said."
That doesn't seem like a dance to me. He just stated the facts that have been confirmed in this thread. Also, you clearly did not double check with KenM beforehand, and you did double check with some of GOONS, who completely contradicted your theory. So that doesn't help your point in the least bit.
I play pretend with my friends on the playground all the time. I'm always the red power ranger. But that isn't the issue at hand. The primary cause of this issue has nothing to do with misinformed MI6 members, but misinformed Kaskus leadership.
Agreed. It is a weird unstable middle ground he is trying to hold, which is only publicly discrediting him. The logical thing to do is either admit he acted poorly in his leadership position and that he made a mistake, or to admit he just wanted an excuse to fight a war. Instead, this middle ground is displaying that he still acted poorly in his leadership of Kaskus, but also is acting rather illogically in the aftermath of the mess he caused, and hence still acting poorly in his leadership of Kaskus. There are two logical paths, but neither are being followed. I'm not trying to rile anyone up, just stating what is evident.