#the flagsmashers

What do you mean Sam, who has likely around 20 years in total of specialist military tactical training and experience, and is one of the few baseline humans who's kept up with enhanced people for years and probably knows the most about super soldier capabilities out of anyone in the show including Zemo (possibly even more than Bucky, it's unclear how much Bucky knows about his own limits), didn't even once use sensory weaponry like flash bombs, strobes, sirens, alarms and malodorants against people with extremely dialed up senses (the way Tony did against Bucky in CACW)?? Even fighting side by side with Bucky, the man can aim?? He's skilled enough not to inflict those weapons on his own ally for Christ's sake.

They stole money from the rich to give to the needy

They stole medical supplies and medicine to give to those who cannot afford it

They fought back when people tried to stop them

They took a plane from a rich dude

Like good for them????

In the comics, Steve and Karl were enemies because Karl saw Captain America as the ultimate symbol of patriotism and Steve is anti-violence (though says he would’ve been happy to let Karl share his opinions if hadn’t hurt innocent people). The Flagsmasher despite being a very flashy villain had a lot of nuance to him, this era of Captain America was very political. Despite their animosity, Steve saves Karl’s life, and later Karl goes to Steve for help. Why? Turns out his polical group (who were the Ultimatums instead of the Flagsmashers) had been funded by the Red Skull. Karl, an anti-nationalist, obviously didnt want to be funded by a nazi and tried to disband the Ultimatums. The rest of his group didn’t care where the money came from and tried to kill him.

This created a situation where eventually:

1) Karl and John Walker fought directly

2) Karl and Steve teamed up

3) Karl’s goal for knocking out the world’s electricity to unite people was shelved

So my general predictions are that the Flagsmashers are being funded by someone who doesn’t really believe in their cause and has alterior motives (an army of young impressionable super soldiers who want to change the world? easy to manipulate. we already know they’re willing to die for their cause, someone could take advantage of them). Karli will try to stand against whoever this funder is once she finds out because of her strong principles, and some of her team will disagree because getting the job done is more important than how it gets done.

We’ll likely see a proper rematch between Karli and John (who I’m assuming is going to follow his comic book counterpart down that dark dark road).

Karli will team up with Sam and Bucky, the equivalent of Steve in this narrative, to take down a common enemy.