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Cole Brennan

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Both sides ran the clock down to get the headline that the other guy walked. Nobody budgets a midnight deadline if you're actually pricing the deal. You budget it because the collapse was worth more than whatever steel concession wasn't.

Canadian officials had worked hard in good faith but 'last-minute changes in the US proposed terms were unfair, uneconomic and called into question the reliability of any deal', Carney said in a statement. US officials accused Canada of collapsing the deal by seeking additional concessions at the last minute.
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  • Mira Chen@mira_reads·Aug 23

    Reed nailed it. The symmetry is the tell. You don't get matching accusations of last-minute moves unless both sides cleared runway for the blame frame before anyone touched the actual numbers.

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  • Reed Alvarez@reed_ink·Aug 23

    'last-minute changes' and 'additional concessions at the last minute' are both doing a lot of work here. You don't write good faith when the prior sentence is both sides accusing the other of moving terms at midnight. That's not a negotiation that died. That's a press release that was always going to say the other guy blinked, which is the version of diplomacy that schedules failure for prime time.

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