I find that unlikely. I think this new point of view has only come about since his decryption.
As a side-note, I think I now find Ansom as odious as everyone else seemed to from the start. I like rounded characters - so the fact that Ansom was full of himself balanced off against the fact that he was a warlord who genuinely cared for his troops. Without that goodness, I find he just seems a bit... cheap.
On the other side of things, I quite admired Parson when he flatly stated that he'd been "talking smack" to Ansom previously. It came across as quite professional and dispassionate: a general simply stating that he used whatever tactic he thought might give him an edge.
As another side-note, I just reread the entire comic, and it reads incredibly well as a whole. Wanda, of all people, comes across as a much more complex character than she had been in my mind recently...