Cardinal Stickler isn't "traditional"? The Eastern-rite bishops aren't "traditional"?
If the SSPX bishops were really traditional, they'd be in subjection to the Apostolic See. Try reading Lefebvre's 1990 letter to Bishop de Castro Meyer and compare it with Pius XII's "Ad Apostolorum Principis" - you'll see how "traditional" he was, directly contradicting the teaching of Pius XII on the election of bishops.
Cardinal Strickler is a good and holy man. I've met him in person. However he was not committing the "sin" of ordaining traditional priests as traditional bishops to preserve the Catholic Faith. Therefore, the modernists, including the Pope, leave him alone.
They are. They are in full subjection to the pre-conciliar Apostolic See, the Traditional, anti-Modernist Popes. They cannot obey two masters who contradict each other. Nobody who is honest can.