This reading separates success at the negotiating table from success in every later strategic consequence. The Americans achieved the diplomatic objectives they sought in the Washington Naval Treaty. Those objectives could nevertheless undermine other American interests and strategic requirements. The treaty can therefore count as a negotiating success even while its results work against the United States' wider position.
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The Washington Naval Treaty as a narrow diplomatic success
The United States could claim success in securing its immediate Washington Treaty aims even if those aims complicated its wider strategic position.