Sure, if you only interpret "win" as "able to come home". Your entire rationale regarding it "not being a win" is through this narrow lens. Maybe it's a "win"

Sure, if you only interpret "win" as "able to come home". Your entire rationale regarding it "not being a win" is through this narrow lens. Maybe it's a "win" philosophically, judicially (however small), psychologically. In some sense, a validation of his efforts. The article itself doesn't even mention whether or not this would affect his ability to re-enter the US without consequence, do I don't see why you're hanging so hard on that point.