You know after I pressed “Send”, it occurred to me ODD as heck that square one offer would have been made by not Blinkenod, or freckled Jake Sullivan, State Department goons, but by the CIA. Burns. Go figure that one. CIA doesn’t do deals out loud. Nations peacocks do.
I thought an offer like that was so satisfactory it could have been made by a White Hat.. Burns(?). 🤔 It would mean someone was pushing hard against the bloodthirsty Victoria.
The over simplified story also didn’t declare itself to be true, but “if true”.
(Anyway, my foot🦶 event gave me the flu! 🤣 So, by the time it posted I was too faucet faced to care.🤧🥶).
😄🤗
😯 Yikes! Sorry to hear about the flu.
Espionage is an extension of diplomacy; in a sane world a spy chief might fill a diplomatic role in seeking to weave a thread that could expand into a cord for peace. The espion would attract less attention than a major diplomat thus leading to less speculation as to what is going on.
OTOH one would expect the spy chief to be acting under orders from a central authority, such as Sec State or Prez. One would not expect the negotiator to be acting 'rogue'; what could they achieve without overall authority to forge an international agreement?
No... the story tends towards different conclusions. \_😐_/