highcirrus,
well, the amounts of damage payments the EU has proposed the UK should pay if they leave pretty much has the smell of war reparation and in it's size alone is unacceptable. So what do you call it, if your opposite sets unmeetable conditions? To me, it pretty much looks like a hacked off wife asking $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ of the guy who finally figured out he is better off without her. But at state level, the way it is looks pretty much like economical warfare to me as the result would leave Britain in a very difficult financial mess if they accepted it, so it appears to me that the EU is pretty much trying to create a condition where there is an exit without agreement. Does it matter that both were not prepared? I don't think so. High statecraft can deal with the unexpected, those people obviously can't or are unwilling to.