I do hope we get some of Cordelia's POV on this in the next book. She certainly had perspective on it in Barrayar but forty years later . . . it'd be interesting. I think to some extent it's realistic - when you're so far inside a system, particularly when you have a lot of personal investment in that system, it's hard to see how completely messed up it is. And we do get characters like Duv Galeni and his father; granted, his father is presented as a terrorist, but it's easy to see how Barrayaran actions have bred terrorists like him.

I think how I think of it is that Barrayar is far, FAR from being anyone's ideal of anything. But there are people within that system, like Miles and Gregor, who have ideals, and it's possible to respect them and their ideals while seeing all the ways in which the system in which they exist is deeply flawed.

But I'm super excited about getting Cordelia's POV again. She remains my favorite, I think.