We tried to negotiate, you just saw it as appeasement.
If you're ready to surrender, you'd better go west. The guys on the Eastern Front are in no mood to offer you terms.
You drove a lot of good people off this board, Tom. You "wiped the floor" with them, remember? You "rubbed their noses in it". You showed them up for the fools and cowards and traitors they were. You showed all those "useful idiots" and "butt monkeys", with geometric logic, who really ate the strawberries.
I hope they were tasty, 'cuz they're all gone now.