yes. kizaru is smart and honest enough to understand that he's nothing more than a 'corporate slave' - unlike kuzan, sengoku and garp, who have always harbored a variety of delusions regarding the 'integrity' of their job. but kizaru is not delusional. he tells saturn that attacking egghead will result in the artificial sea beast retaliation, which is to be avoided. he's trying to appeal to saturn's selfishness: look, it's for our own good, we don't want those sea beasts hurting the navy ships, it's bad for the WG. while he does tell saturn that sentomaru is his friend, he's not an idiot, so he must understand that saturn won't consider an admiral's personal friendship a sufficient reason to abort the mission.
who knows, in the coming chapters, he might even come up with yet another 'politically correct' reason to try to avoid attacking the vegapunk+SHs alliance. when all the reasons fail to prevent the worst, he will put himself on the line for his friends. kizaru is not a moralfag. he's not like garp who let an innocent man be executed bEcAuSe hE wAs a PiRaTe. he's not like akainu, either: sentomaru and vegapunk's righteousness doesn't really matter to him (for example, he doesn't say that vegapunk was *wrong* to research the void century - just that it was a *stupid* thing to do) - what matters to him is that they're his friends. if the friendship was of secondary importance, kizaru wouldn't be bringing it up. the fact that he did is the chekhov's gun that must be fired.
who knows, in the coming chapters, he might even come up with yet another 'politically correct' reason to try to avoid attacking the vegapunk+SHs alliance. when all the reasons fail to prevent the worst, he will put himself on the line for his friends. kizaru is not a moralfag. he's not like garp who let an innocent man be executed bEcAuSe hE wAs a PiRaTe. he's not like akainu, either: sentomaru and vegapunk's righteousness doesn't really matter to him (for example, he doesn't say that vegapunk was *wrong* to research the void century - just that it was a *stupid* thing to do) - what matters to him is that they're his friends. if the friendship was of secondary importance, kizaru wouldn't be bringing it up. the fact that he did is the chekhov's gun that must be fired.
