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Originally Posted by mr. tegu
I don't understand why proof of Whitewalkers should preclude Dany from still wanting Jon to bend the knee so that she has total control. Just because he is right about it doesn't mean she doesn't still want to be in charge of that territory and eliminating that threat, especially given its her dragons and army that would be put on the line. She has referenced how she believes the best times Westeros had where when a Stark was Warden in the North to a Targaryan so she wants to return to that.
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Then go win.
She also keeps saying she has a right to a throne that was lost after her dad got his ass kicked. And her family only ever had ANY claim on the throne because they had !@#$ing dragons after Valyria went splodey. Back home the Targaryans were exceedingly mediocre, fringe nobles. They effectively showed up with smallpox like the Europeans coming to the Americas. They weren't special back home - they just had something that nobody had ever seen or had an answer to.
She has no 'divine right' to the iron throne. And if she wants to burn shit down and take it by force - good on her. Baratheon wasn't a usurper - he won, fair and square. Her 'claim' was extinguished when Robert took the throne. Now she's just another rebel - no different than Jon. She has no cause to claim right over Jon - if you want the throne, go win it. And when you're done if you think dragons can tame the north - good luck...
And if she wants to rule a continent and not just its zombified remains, she'll get in line as well. Because people keep wanting to act like this isn't an infestation and they'll just wander along in a massive hoard. No - they'll spread. The walkers will spread across the north and trickle down - dragons aren't land forces that can root them out. They're air power that can do great things to a poorly moving monolith but as soon as the Walkers get a footing in Westeros (which they'll do if Jon and the northmen don't hold them down), it's game over for Dany.
She can't allow the walkers to get to population centers. They'll take root and spread and there's nothing she'll be able to do about it via dragonfire.