To me, this smacks of desperation on Consone's part. It looks to me like VIC has been doing all of the heavy lifting on the Consone side, and that other Consone members have done very little to aid in the war. That suggests to me that morale on the Consone side is low.
On the other side, I see H? continuing to open new sieges, as well as dlords. Morale seems high in their coalition.
So Jasche using the rhy/absa nap as an onus for peace talks is, as some others have said here, a pr maneuver.
Look, this war is not the war that absa and rhy got into over whatever that was all about. It just isn't. This war is the big war -- the grand war that everyone has expected since the launch of Consone. It is going to be the war that determines who controls the political hegemony in Illy.
The way you win this war -- in my opinion -- is simply by not cracking. Whoever's morale cracks first is the loser; the other team wins by default. The way that Consone has waged its defense looks to me like their morale is low. The fact that they have not launched sieges is a gamble by Jasche. He figures that by not counter-attacking, he can claim some "moral high road."
The thing is, I wouldn't think that getting sieged and losing cities every few days makes Consone players feel uplifted. If that Greyhawk city falls today, that'll be 3 Consone cities razed, if you include the one that rhy took down.
For Consone, maybe a good defense would be a good offense?
In the end, this war is here to stay for a while. We should all get used to it. It is going to be a war of attrition, and the loser will be the one who just cannot muster their troops any longer.