bingo for the PDM conflict too.
those who negotiated did so with the absolute expectation of ending up in war one way or another, regardless of the stance they presented to us. good cop, bad cop FA 101 :p
sov's admission that as part of basically upping the stakes, he would topfeed PDM, shows that he expected to push us into war, which in the end really

but replace the suicider thing in anon's post with SoF also FS'ing PDM the next round as we netted the next round as revenge for the war SoF wanted, won and looked good in :p
That's part of the problem with the state of things.