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Unlike other stories Mahabharat is not about heroes and villains or anti heroes
or heroes defeating villains
Everyone is grey and complex, of course some are more darker than the others.
Draupadi is a very amazing character, extremely beautiful, smart and intelligentthough she was a queen, but she did not have that much influence to change anything.
Kunti and even Karna could have actually stopped the war than any other character.(Not bringing Krishna into this).
In fact among the central characters she was the least grey character but suffered the maximum humiliation and sorrow.
I don't think Kunti had spies, Karna was the son of Sun, she prayed to the Sun and floated him in the river with confidence that his father will look after him.
If you go by this logic the sun god did actually protect him, he probably did not play a paternal role but actually did warn him not to give his kavach and kundal and asked him to join the pandavas.
In fact both did Kunti and Surya did not bring Karna up or save him from any humiliation from society, but they both did not want him to die either.
It probably would have benefited Karna if they had talked and adviced him way before than just before the war.
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