Things are usually better than you think, so I still hope that it will get resolved in the short / medium in a way that allows some saving of face on both sides. Properly ghastly situation though.
The rest....well, maybe it's a bit less bleak than everyone thinks, except maybe in the UK where we seem to be in a bit of a tizzy from which there isn't an obvious exit.
Things are usually better than you think, so I still hope that it will get resolved in the short / medium in a way that allows some saving of face on both sides. Properly ghastly situation though.
The rest....well, maybe it's a bit less bleak than everyone thinks, except maybe in the UK where we seem to be in a bit of a tizzy from which there isn't an obvious exit.