I have no intention of pretending to advance only to end in a strategic withdrawal.

Explain these lines. The tiger king

In the second paragraph, the narrator iterates that he will be telling us the story behind the king's peculiar nomenclature of 'tiger king'. He had no intention of pretending to advance only to end in a strategic withdrawal because even if the telling of the story was detrimental to the king's reputation, it would be narrated now. Even the threat of a Stuka bomber would not throw him off track as it was imperative to disclose a matter of vital importance regarding the king. The people had the right to know and the freedom of speech to express.................
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