"One may think it easy for me to say now that I lament my involvement in the orchestration of the first Titan war, but in actuality, I began to truly realize my mistake only months into the commencement of our operations on the plant. Of course, in retrospect, the reality of the secrets that were kept, especially outside my sphere of influence are more horrible than most anyone realized at the time. Hydrogen cyanide poisoning, nighttime pole temperatures of 95K, POW scandals. But political stubbornness and party pressure, not sometimes, but always, amount to more than cheap human life."
-Excerpt from Carlos Gonzales' memoir, White Tiger Initiative: A damning view of the political circumstances surrounding the Titan Wars.
The Martian population was so evenly and bitterly polarized that not even the most innocuous child pornography act could be agreed upon by parliament, and the vaguely impartial and inoffensive champion girls' Junior Varsity tennis team had to be greeted separately, in adjacent chambers by politicos asunder; first Mr. Prime Minister, next the President. The majority party and its administration were poised for war, and the minority party was poised at the other's throat, and no other allegory could serve as a better analogy for the society these parties represented. Not even the apathetic young were immune from the overwhelming desire to take a side.
Gentle Ganymede, on the other hand, (or clenched fist) was united in burning, ferocious war frenzy, crying bloody murder for fallen martyr and future fallen boys who were willing to sacrifice and be sacrificed for the cause. Even Jaurez wouldn't have dared dissent on that moon, to reference archaic history.
Thusly the ever removed historians agree, and astutely so: with backdoor political deals, controlled public information, and pandemic propaganda campaigns, the first Titan war was an absolute inevitability.
