Negotiating is not surrendering.
It is, if the other side is making impossible demands.
You are in the middle of an armed home invasion in which you and your family are the victims. The invaders have killed one of your three children. You pull out your gun.
Pope materializes to pontificate about how cowboy justice is not the solution. Maybe if you give them one of the remaining two children as a hostage to ensure their escape, you can avoid any further bloodshed. The perps agree that they will never, ever, hurt the hostage.
What kind of crazed bloodthirsty lunatic would you have to be to blow away the perps? You have to negotiate. Negotiation is not surrender.
He used the language “white flag.” What is the traditional meaning of waving a white flag?
Did the Pope ever ask Russia to wave the white flag, as he did Ukraine?
Asking to a truce.
Balancing expectations. (Gift link: Pope Francis Finds A Limit To His Liberalism.)
Sorry, you’re right, I meant his brother’s estate.