He is a realist, not an idealist. He know war is bad, but he can't just wait and do nothing until war eventually coming into his land. Like other commenter said :
Si vis pacem, para bellum
("If you want peace, prepare for war")
It might be the other way around. He probably want to test how strong he is against the Fenrir and to see whether he has a chance to win against the great sage if it's come down to it.
The last update on Narou was also in April 25th, but the author sometime gone for one or two months without word of news. So probably just need to wait for a bit.
Wait, for real? I mean the last chapter he release was two month ago. Can you tell me his blog address?
While the WN first release in 2013, quite a bit gap before it went into publication.
I don't think they are the same person, if anything it seem like someone who want to troll Hamascans by sniping their series? Never mind MF really took over this series, Hamascans really drop this and few others.
And it's done by the same group that was translating the previous chapter. Looks like only recently the group start translating again after few years stop translating anything.