In fact I suspect some people set them up to make them think they were on the same page and getting a deal, lied to both of them, and they only found out they were not on the same page during the press conference. Their trickery failed.
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The plan was to string America along into providing security guarantees by essentially bribing them with the 'mineral deal', while Europe went about setting up it's 'alternative peace plan' but it fell apart.