>That's...not how binding international agreements are formed. Thank you, this is exactly the point I arrived at as well. It's an admission that the primary to

>That's...not how binding international agreements are formed. Thank you, this is exactly the point I arrived at as well. It's an admission that the primary tool of the US State Department is to make friendly, reasonable verbal agreements in front of the press and public, then do the dirty move they really wanted to do when the news cycle has moved past. This maintains the appearance to the US public that their foreign policy is always just, and never cynical or deceitful.