User blog comment:Observer Supreme/How would Kizaru and Aokiji operate if either of them were Fleet Admiral?/@comment-24850639-20170718191705

Very tough thing for me to speculate on personally, as I'm still trying to figure the Marines out as a whole. While we understand their purpose is the enforcement of justice and/or the maintenance of order, their treatment of pirates that we've seen has been disparate at best. We already knew that not all bounties are created equally, but apparently neither is their enforcement of them. More importantly though, the biggest question of them all that I need answered is the Yonko. As the most powerful pirates on the face of the planet, you would think that the Marines would have dealing them as a priority of the utmost importance. However from what we've seen, they seem more content with maintaining a peaceful balance of the "Great Three Powers". They'd apparently never want a direct war with a Yonko, nor would they ever want any two of the Yonko to work together for any reason. This is what throws me off, it seems very backwards of them to treat a pirate as "too powerful" to trifle with once they get to a certain level, and let them go about their business. As it stands, we know of no major operations in place to take down Kaido, Big Mom, Shanks, or Blackbeard. It seems they would rather let the Yonko kill each other, and then just be there to arrest the loser. Perhaps I'm wrong about that and we just haven't seen it yet, but I'm comfortable with believing that until I'm shown proof of otherwise. Honestly, I think the Yonko are stronger than the Admirals, except maybe Sakazuki. The Yonko can probably for sure take down Admirals, while the stronger right hand men (Katakuri, Benn Beckman, Jack etc.) are probably just below or even at Admiral level. Until we learn more, I'm assuming that's what giving them pause.

Going off of that, it's still harder to imply what Kuzan or Borsalino might have been doing differently without knowing the full scale of what Sengoku/Sakazuki dealt/deals with. Jinbei said the Marines have grown stronger under Sakazuki, and I had to strongly consider why. I think Kuzan might have imposed a similar measure to replace their lost military power at Marineford, though I believe he'd be a lot more strict about evaluating every new recuit's sense of justice, as opposed to just strength potential. While Sengoku was shown to be a bit of a tougher nail, he also clearly believed in doing what was RIGHT, not what made the Marines "look good". I don't believe Issho would have had the same argument with Kuzan that he did with Sakazuki about saving face for the World Government, but Kuzan doesn't care about such trivial things. I think Borsalino might behave similarly in regards to his sense of justice, as he truly seems to enjoy being an enforcer. I don't think he'd do well with the logistic and strategic portions of the job though.