Did Sidious let the separatists (especially in the early stages of the Clone Wars) win and increase its control in the Outer Rim and throughout the galaxy to use the threat and advance of the CIS to more easily gather emergency powers and authority?
Surely the fact that Sidious personally orders Dooku to form a Hutt alliance and an alliance with Mandalore through the Death Watch, among other things, means that Sidious really wanted the Separatists to become more powerful and threatening? but along the other hand, didn't Sidious also have to make sure that the CIS didn't become too powerful and didn't win too much to prevent the war from already ending?
Can anyone clarify for me on this plsss?