My bet: The felon has deteriorated too much to be cognizant of the humiliation.

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28. Perhaps I need a word other than "humiliating" to capture...

... that he is -- under "normal" circumstances-- constitutionally incapable of accepting a loss of any kind.

He may not feel shame, but he has never, and I thought never would, taken an L.

As I noted in post #10, his surrender on this strikes me as very different than his "normal" modus operandi. It's not like a lost election that he can scream "rigged" about. It's not like a secret lawsuit settlement he can declare a "win." It is not something he can deny as "fake news."

This is a gargantuan loss on the world stage that he is publicly walking into. The public terms are/will be the public terms, and there is no way around the fact that we are FAR, FAR worse off than we were when he tore up Obama's JCPOA. His criminal war was a cataclysmic mistake and the only out was always going to be sucking up terms of surrender.

It seems to me that the NPD part of his dual diagnosis ASPD/NPD would have had him endlessly screaming at his "negotiation team" to get a better deal. And when they did not/could not, he would have cast himself as the "strongman" holding out for that better deal. If he were "himself," I would have expected him to avoid surrender at all costs, and to hell with the domestic and international chaos and escalating harms.