The way I see how it panned out, the way I see how it panned out, is like 'the waving of a white flag by the enemy', an enemy which has realised it cannot win, demoralised to the extent that they embarrassingly 'capitulate', they fly 'the flag of honour' with courage in that moment of defeat, expecting the 'victors', or the one who can taste 'victory', to be merciful, and sympathetic. Until ''that' moment, everyone's life hangs in the balance. life and death, could go this way, or that way in a shoot out...
It takes 'guts' to surrender...