The split gave me the political cover, as Eli, to 'ditch' my rhetorical alliance with the ADN and swing to my Pacific friends. Which is what I did as Wep here in The West Pacific.
The ADN/RLA split was really quite divisive/destructive to the Meritocracy as well, but not as much as the Libertarian madmen that infiltrated the region.
BB knew those players quite well too.