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[Star Wars] How involved was Palpatine during the Clone Wars?

Haven't watched the tv show.

Was he heavily involved in war planning so that he could gather information and feed it to Grievous/Dooku, or did he kinda chill and let both sides throw piles of droid/clone bodies at each other?

Also, was either side going to win if he didn't intervene?
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He was very involved. As Sidious, he fed the CIS information, which allowed them to win key confrontations on important worlds, and frankly remain relevant in the war at all. As Palpatine, he bogged the republic's war effort down, consolidated power to himself and his allies in the senate, and indirectly drove the public opinion of the "bureaucracy" and the Jedi into the dirt by getting them involved in unpopular actions during the war. (With the obvious exception of Anakin, who enjoyed his status as a hero of the republic for the duration of the war.)