Oh for sure, the success if you want to call it that was to successfully implement the least bad option. Though it does seem that the king saw some good in West

Oh for sure, the success if you want to call it that was to successfully implement the least bad option. Though it does seem that the king saw some good in Western culture, so at least from his POV it was presumably not all about losing their culture, but partially also an improvement. What I find admirable is managing this mess of grey areas.