I had expected something closer to how napoleon did it, with reputation and trust being grown slow and steady, but considering she already grew that with the revolutionaries a good bit before the revolution had taken over -- I really should not have been that surprised about her doing this that early, hell, the king is not even dead jet, right?
Going balls deep into war is no shock whatever however, makes me wonder who the Brittan and Russia equivalent(s) are/is going to be in this, if there is going to be one.