I think they were being stupid. Their terrible rhetoric around the issue certainly doesn't imply that they grasped the situation. If they publicly bemoaned the

I think they were being stupid. Their terrible rhetoric around the issue certainly doesn't imply that they grasped the situation. If they publicly bemoaned the shakedown from the get-go, but claimed they hsd to participate abyways, they would have improved their negotiating position, and maybe diffused blowback too.