Ben has always been a liar, as long as I’ve know him, like I said. He used to lie to build himself up, or protect himself from the scorn of others and that’s unlikely to change. So I don’t think either one of us can really trust a word he says, whether we want to or not.
But I don’t know. I don’t know what the playbook is here, there’s no real rules for what to do when the kid you used to bring calligraphy pens to and who you thought was dead is actually alive and the genocidal dictator of an authoritarian government which aims to enslave the galaxy for the benefit of those in power.
He’s not a cog in a machine, he’s not a stormtrooper. It’s different.