Jacob just stares for a moment. He gently pushes his blueberry shake away, frowns at Tintin, and just tries to process all that, not really catching what Snowy says.

"Sorry, I don't think I really got that," he says after a pause. "You helped win a revolution by getting the rebels to sober up?"

The part where something like that could happen without killing anyone is what Jacob really has trouble understanding, but he'll take it one step at a time while parsing this.