There was violence, but it ultimately wasn't warfare that pushed the USSR to that point. Getting too far into this will get off topic fast, but I think it's fair to say that you don't need to go to maximum chaos mode to pursue a conflict.
It's transitional chaos that's going to happen one way or another as technology develops and the masquerade inevitably comes down.
Working to prepare for that and setting up groups like the paranet to fight low grade conflicts to push predators out of human spaces is a lot more manageable, and we have a lot of other options to go with it.
It'd also have the effect of setting humans up with a seat at the table and not yet another faction of supernatural post-humans to rule over them.
There isn't an easy and clean route for something like this, but the amount of harm and quality of results vary.
So they aren't stupid, but they will let us roll up all the exalts? Right.
They might not be stupid, but they aren't all knowing or particularly cooperative among themselves either. We can eat the proverbial whale one bite at a time with less difficulty and collateral than trying to swallow it while.
If exaltations were that easy to control on a regular basis then the people who made them wouldn't have had some many issues keeping them in line.
I'm extremely doubtful of this plan to somehow keep the superpowered cats that are the other exalted in line, that we will actually succeed every time we pull an new one, and that it won't just kick of a race for exalted servants we don't have the legs to stay in.
Call a tech up and growing pro mortal supernatural groups optimistic while planning to try assemble what appears to be an army of arch demons while the supernatural world gormlessly watches is ridiculous.
No they aren't and no it doesn't because that just isn't true. DF wizards aren't really WoD mages, they aren't demiurges waiting to happen. They can be very dangerous, but they take a lot of work to get there and fundamentally don't have the same sort of capabilities.
Their occurrence rate of all things is barely relevant. Both appearing out in the wild doesn't make them particularly similar in any other way.
No, decades to centuries. Molly got moderately useful in canon she was stupidly gifted and good at subtle stuff, but even she wasn't really ready to square up with most of the things she got dragged up to the point where she became the Winter lady. Look at the difference between her and Harry, Harry and Luccio, or Luccio and MCoy.
Subtly is certainly valuable, but it does make up for the gap. Especially since exalts aren't obligated to be stupid and can build to play that game better themselves.
If you honestly believe that wizards are just as good and plentifully available why do you want exalted instead of dedicating our time to a wizard army?
It's pretty clear the exalted bring a lot of unique capabilities to the table, which is what makes them valuable and this comparison too loose to really suggest anything.
