"Good strategy, shitty implementation," Soldat suggests. Not gonna change their mind on that, buddy. Though their threat assessment of Ghost sure did just go up. It's probably a good thing they've already slotted him pretty firmly into "friend-shaped" in their head, and also managed to conflate him with the Widows into "needs protecting".

Friends can also be very dangerous, though, as can people who need looking out for, so it's fine.

They look down at Ghost's tightly-closed fingers. "What happened."