ThumperOne
Getting some practice in, huh?
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I think you don't understand what happened. He didn't tell them all to show up somewhere to start the exercise and nuked them when they showed up. He approached each of them individually and recruited them to play the part of a patsy who had been mind controlled or replaced by a shapeshifter or an evil clone. Each of them went along with it because none of them are truly and completely immune to every method of compromising them, but each one believed that they were the only compromised one. The point wasn't that they trusted him and so went along with it - it was that they as an organisation don't have any method of noticing that their teammates are compromised. None of them were caught out at any point, because they don't have screening for mind control or identity checking or any other way to reliably detect whether something is wrong. And having more people compromised should have made it harder for none of them to have been caught out given that they couldn't coordinate - but despite that none of them seem to have realised that any of the others were compromised until after the exercise was ended. That's not just a problem with methods of securing themselves - it means that if something like that happens, they won't even realise there's anything wrong until the compromised member actually attacks them.Except the whole thing only worked because they knew he was not a shapeshifter knew he was not mind controlled, and it was an exercise that they were cooperating with.
So basically the only thing they learned from this is that in the future if Paul suggests a training exercise, cheat.
They've learned that they don't have any good way to detect compromised members, and that they can all be taken out simultaneously specifically due to that lack. That's a seriously good thing for them to know, given threats like the Starros are still around and given Light clones impersonated multiple people close to the League (Red Arrow, the Guardian) for a long time. This should lead to them having defences against this, like checking each other's identities on a regular basis or going through frequent screening protocols to catch things like hidden psychic instructions or brainwashing.