I do not see what CR did as wrong either.

From my understanding, as an example, CR noticed simians who were interested in waring Pyro. Now CR *could* have waved simians BEFORE simians could get into the war and within the constraints of CF, it was "legal". Negotiations between Simians and CR took place and Simians agreed to give CR x amount of acres AFTER the war so that they could fight Pyro on equal footing. CR *could* have just waved simians before but IMO what happened was fair all around.

If simians did not want to be "taxed", they could have done what Kygal suggested and Raze retal but then simians would not have got a war from Pyro.

*edit*

Again, this was all a case of CR playing their CF better than everyone else and being in situations to enable them to do this on other kingdoms.