Weren't nearly? Rieri and Naomi were (IIRC) negotiators for a pro-independence faction, while Alicia and Maya were fairly talented, benevolent rulers of another independent nation. Their only 'crimes', per se, were to go against Earth and piss off our good captain Bohgan in doing so. Neither pair were anywhere near as nasty as Beatrice and Kila, who might be the only people in the KS-verse to actually give good ol' Donny a run for his money in the Evilympics.
That said, I'm majorly pro-Earth in just about any media that pits our glorious homeworld and her people against any outside force, so I didn't have many moral problems breaking those bitches for Holy Terra, the Blessed Mother of Humanity™