Sounds like a good plan. No doubt they want hats, badges, and patches in return!
Just ‘cause our leaders and their policies are stupid, doesn’t mean the troopies are!
In return, we asked just to be by-passed and not nuked. As we were 60k behind the first Russian rest stop.
Later we learned that would not have mattered, as we were a strategic nuke target for our on forces - we were a liability if captured alive.