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No, he was being tactical. You can't build a rogue nation to take out the Patriots when their prying eyes are always watching you. He was building Zanzibar Land up while Venom Snake took all the heat off of him, building up the legend of Big Boss and uniting soldiers under the cause. Big Boss was doing all the heroic shit Venom Snake was doing, building a nation for disenfranchised soldiers, just not out in the open for the world to see. A theory I like is eventually Venom Snake becomes unhindged (he's had to endure being mutilated, his mind being irriversably altered, multitudes of his men dying of infection, and having to kill dozens his own men, remember: HE RUBS A DEAD GUYS ASHES ON HIS FACE) and Big Boss realizes Venom Snake has become a threat to the World, and that's why he sends Solid Snake to Outer Heaven to kill him.