Of course, consider that the Protectorates probably get all their information filtered through the Minbari so they honestly don't know much if
anything about humanity except what the Minbari tell them. Which is probably a double serving of 'barbarians at the gates!' served with a glass of 'Totally harbingers of the Shadows coming back!'
That might not last long of course.
On a side note
@Harlock ; I'm going to guess that in this timeline, the Drakh did
not give the Dilgar the Shadow Planet Killer missile technology? Too many things make it clear they didn't, but just want to check
Going forward, My guess is that we'll see Earth take a few Minbari border worlds, with very stiff resistance from the Warrior Cast despite EA sending down their elite with power armor. Although I'm guessing the first victory will be pretty swift because the Minbari fight stupid (aka the Windswords) and the second will be a Stalingradesque bloody nightmare (aka the Starriders). But even so, a number of undercover Rangers carefully positioned throughout the worker and religious population ordered to watch and report back to Delen and sane members of the council sending reports that the EA troops are acting professional and even kindly towards the Minbari (starkly contrasting with the Minbaris stated goal to exterminate humanity hopefully shaming the Religious and Worker casts enough that they have the votes to
force negotiations) which lets talks commence as something of a stalemate draws up.
Well that
and Starkiller behind their lines gleefully striking at every weak point he can find, causing massive headaches to the Worker cast as they try to switch to a full scale war mobilization. Driving Branmer nuts as he has to divert his thinly stretched forces to try and cover his logistics as well as threatening to derail his plans to build up for the Shadow War because protecting rear areas is just not something the Minbari have had to think about for centuries.
The Minbari should consider themselves lucky that they never got to the point of exterminating civilians en-mass and Shikari got blocked from his attempt by Earths allies. If they
had been able to wash humans off a world with antimatter, or even if they had managed to get any surface strikes in from Earth?
Well, as was said earlier in the fic, Deathwalker is fully aware that B13 or EIA scooped up a whole load of Deathwalkers research from Balos, including several of her finest bioweapons....