Why did Krishna run away when Jarasandha attacked for the 18th time?

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So, Krishna was not there at that time. That’s why he couldn’t stop Yudhishthira. destruction that can could result from the invading armies.
When Krishna would be, when Krishna was earlier 17 occasions attacked by Jarasandha, Krishna personally fought and defeated and disarmed him, defeated him and killed his soldiers, but left him alive so that he could bring all the demons along and all demoniac forces could be killed by Krishna efficiently without having to travel everywhere else. Now, every time when Jarasandha would come, Mathura and Vrindavan are very close and each time the Brajwasis seeing the invading armies would often have to depart from their homes and take refuge in the forests. So, on the 18th occasion when Jarasandha came along, at that time he had also struck an alliance with Kala Yavan and the combined forces were gigantic and at this particular occasion, not only would the forces of the invading armies pass through Vraja and destroy Vraja, but even the sheer number of forces that were there that it was possible that they would also spill over into Vraja and Krishna did not want any violence in Vraja, any disturbance in Vraja and especially he felt that when he was in Mathura, he could protect the Mathura Vasis and although the two were close by, he did not want that any harm come to any Brajwasis and he wanted the peace of Vrindavan to not be disturbed repeatedly.
That is why Krishna initially created Dwarka and transferred all the Dwarka Vasis while they were sleeping at night from Mathura to Dwarka and then he came out alone through Mathurasati and he ran away apparently from Jarasandha. Actually, he ran away both from Kala Yavan and Jarasandha. Why? Basically, it was so that he could lead both of them away from Vraja and in this way he could protect the Brajwasis.
So, that’s why if it had been an ordinary cowardly act, Krishna himself condemned such a cowardly act in the first chapter of the Bhagavad Gita where he warns Arjuna that if you leave the battlefield that actually people will say that you have run away like a coward and they will criticize you with words which will be unspeakable, intolerable and it will be worse than death for you. So, what Krishna has warned Arjuna in the Bhagavad Gita not to do, why would Krishna himself do that? It was not because of any fear. Krishna had no fear at all.
He is the supreme lord but there is a factor higher than prestige that was considered by Krishna. For a Kshatriya, the prestige of being considered to be heroic warrior is extremely important and in the initial parts of the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna appeals to Arjuna’s sense of Kshatriya prestige in order to keep him fighting. Later on, of course, he appeals to his intelligence and to his devotion eventually but for Krishna, fear is not a consideration.
Even prestige is not a consideration. Higher than prestige is the consideration of the safety of Raja and that’s why he did not fight with Kalayapan or Jarasandha but instead ran away from them and in this way led both of them away from Raja so that the safety of Raja could be maintained. Thank you.