>>18653899Because they're centres of power and you gave them up. Bottom left is just accepting defeat and hoping they won't come after you in your lifetime.
>>18653903They know it very well, that's why the French revolution all happened in the cities. It was a decapitation strike, the people in the countryside had no real way react nor were they asked for their opinion, the leadership was in the big urban centres and that's where they struck, using the intelligentsia (a favourite of theirs, a bunch of brainwashed morons mistaking it for being intelligent and educated) and other groups to rile up the urban masses.