Danger close...
-———Danger close...——
Perhaps not.
The art of muddling through involves stretching out action in time long enough that adversaries forgot what they were upset about in the beginning. We have a situation where meeting meeting meetings are held and the first is lunch to decide where the meeting will be held to decide on the agenda for the meeting.
Odds are that the process underway is muddling through taken to the utmost level of sophistication.