Merrith
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There would not be a GoT if not for Baelish. He set almost all of the events into motion. He had Jon Aryn poisoned which caused Ned to become hand whom he then betrayed. He is the master of coin and has been manipulating it to the max since day one so he's easily one of the richest people in the entire world while simultaneously bankrupting the crown. He has nearly complete control over the Vale and an entire army. He had Joffrey killed and the list goes on. What does Varys have again exactly? Even in the show, every scene between Baelish and Varys has Baelish being 1 step ahead of Varys every single time. Not really sure we're watching the same show if you think Varys has more influence than Baelish did.
Baelish had zero knowledge of Varys influence with Dorne and Dany, who were going to make it over to eventually ruin any plan LF really had to begin with. Hell in the books when Varys kills Kevan it's because he then reveals he's been manipulating shit behind the scenes to leave Cersei in power so she can keep making the current rulership of KL unstable for his plots to come take care of...nothing LF did there was even a thought to him, only keeping Kevan out so that Cersei could stay unstable (the same person who LF had worked with off and on). He wants Baelish to think he's playing the same game, but Varys has always had eyes outward.
As for there wouldn't be this or that...you could make that same argument with virtually any of the major characters. Jon has done just as much if not more, Tyrion as well. Dany for damn sure. Tyrion even fooled Baelish as part of his plot to figure out who was informing on him to Cersei by telling the 3 different stories about where he was sending Myrcella, something LF came to him and cried about.
This isn't to completely belittle LF's plotting or the effect he's had on the overall tale, but you're exaggerating it and overlooking all of things he had no knowledge of that have been coming, but we haven't gotten to in the books yet. Whether or not he goes into dumb mode over Sansa in the books versus how it happened on the show I'd love to know as well, but LF was always dancing between the powers he knew in Westeros, with no safety net for the powers beyond his scope.
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