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Step 1: build a new global communications thingamajig out of Amity Arena.

Step 2: Tell the people of Atlas about Salem.

Step 3: Use the military to help Atlas come to grips with the fight against Salem.

Step 4: Tell Remnant about Salem.

Step 5: Atlas mobilizes the army to deal with the global panic.

https://rwby.fandom.com/wiki/A_New_Approach

From the episode transcript as linked above.

Step Ruby: Derail everything then co-opt Ironwood's plan when it all goes to shit, and conveniently paint Ironwood as the bad guy.

To the Ironwood fans who said that he had a plan and Team RWBY didn't at the end of Volume 7-

What, exactly, WAS his plan? Not what you interpret as his plan, what was his plan as stated/shown in the show itself?

And on top of that, for the Ironwood fans who said that Team RWBY suffered no consequences-

What is your definition and example of consequences in stories.