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5. Remember The Old Days When You'd Isolate Both Negotiation Parties In One Room Together And....

Reply to Gaugamela (Original post)

Sun Dec 28, 2025, 06:53 PM

8 hrs ago

never let them out until they came to an agreement ?
Those days are over now - they work both sides separately. Each side winds up agreeing with their negotiator.
Then when they get both sides together any deal breaks down.

We keep doing that now and I don't believe we'll ever have an agreement to end this war.

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