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But you did make a value judgement(arrogantly if I may add)... 🙄 Your intention was clear as purified water... As clear as the moonlight
When you said "China capitulated", you implicitly told all of us what your standard is which is "China should have continued with their pressure and they lost if they didn't continue" and the rest of interpretations are not good enough. You implicitly told us your strong preference for your main interpretation rather than actually measuring the rest of the interpretations available. Also, you don't need to write "should" to make a value judgement.
If your true intention was to measure all of the interpretations available and examine if yours was the closest to the correct answer, then a better wording will have suffice and it will have help a lot if you didn't double down on this:
My word choice betrayed what I intended to get at and I didn’t realize how significantly I misunderstood the connotation of capitulated until more folks started voicing the same perspective as XiBuck. That is why I initially balked at what I saw as a significant extension beyond what I intended to say in his response.