If we still see no nukes after this episode, I'll just put this series down to have been written by the same people who write the plots of children's stories. The CB after this episode isn't anymore an organization that tries to prevent wars but one that started a war, and against the most advanced super power, no less. However, the overflags are still so inferior that I doubt even finally swithing to AP rounds would help them. So, it needs to be nukes unless they want to go down like sheeps. And considering we are talking about the nation (at its core anyway) that is the only one ever to have used nukes in the past in a war, I don't see why they wouldn't resort to them again. I would like to see how a Throne Gundam survives a nuclear explosion...

According to Ryllharu's logic Ali is the best pilot in this series so I doubt we have yet seen everything he has to offer, either. Although now that we got the real villains in, I'm not sure what kind of role they could have for a minor dirty work subcontractor villain like Ali anymore. I don't deem it very likely others would like to cooperate with him, either. After all, he wasn't even officially involved in the big three nations operation of the past eps but was sent in unofficially, as an extra measure, and I wonder if the active AEU HQ even knew of him at all.