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Sanctions have not had the desired effect, forcing the Russian economy onto a war footing in order to compensate, and diplomatic efforts to isolate Russia have proved disastrous, driving the country into the arms of China and North Korea. The Russians have diversified and found new customers for their oil and natural gas. Yet the EU seems determined to continue down the same failed path; futilely announcing more sanctions and military aid when the moment has passed. Despite the naysayers, it is clearly time for a new approach. Diplomacy is a way of telegraphing this to the Russians and the world.

But, but Hamas... Hamas would not exist if arab land had not been stolen and illeglly occupied.

Hitler espoused national socialism, which was a far-right ideology and nothing to do with socialism as it is commonly understood. You are betraying your ignorance here.

Nonsense. It appears that you have fallen for the false narrative so beloved by Zelensky. Indeed, according to him Putin is amassing 150,000 troops for just this purpose. An invasion is imminent. Never mind the reality: its miltary is fully engaged in Ukraine and its economy allegedly faltering. There is zero hard evidence to support this claim. You have contradicted yourself. If NATO is such a successful deterrent why would Putin invade neighboring countries like Poland and the Baltic Republics? Even Putin knows this is suicide, due to NATO's vast numerical and technological superiority. Nothing but scaremongering and alarmism.

You appear to have missed the point about dealing with the reality of the situation and realpolitik. Face facts: Ukraine is never going to join NATO, but will have to rely on alternative security guarantees. This has been well known for a long time in diplomatic circles and to all serious observers, but has never before been articulated so bluntly. Its not a question of bowing to Putin's demands, but prudently avoiding any direct confrontation between two nulclear armed forces.

While everyone knows that Trump's words should not be taken at face value, it must have come as a shock to Zelensky to be talked about like that. After all, he has spent the last three years being lauded like a superstar and flying around the world, while pushing the same old tired false narrative: that it is an existentialist crisis and not a territorial dispute with its roots in the cold war and the break-up of the former Soviet Union. I am not a Trump fan, but in this instance I think he may be right. You have to talk to your enemy no matter how unpalatable that may be. The current approach is clearly not working: sanctions and isolating Russia have not had the desired effect and on the battlefield the Ukrainians are losing. Indeed, they are currently facing a recruitment crisis, with thousands deserting and unwilling to fight. For them and their European sponsors, it is an outrage that someone has told the truth and shattered the illusion that has been crafted in the last three years. Hegseth was engaging in realpolitik and only saying out loud what most Europeans already knew: that it is not realistic for Ukraine to regain its lost territory or join NATO. It may be just that it does, but sadly we live in the real world. Just because Macron and Starmer keep saying it will happen doesn't make it so. A new approach and a shift in direction and momentum have clearly being needed for some time. What is the alternative? Continue to escalate a war that cannot be won with the ever- present danger that it may eventually engulf the whole world?

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Agreed, and their so called 'content' has already been done a thousand times over: eating breakfast, getting a visa, walking on beach road or soi 6, recounting fabricated stories, looking for a condo...... Its mind-numbing. What's more, they think its a real job and will fund their stay in the land of smiles. Pathetic.

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She will be out soon, once the one pulling the strings tires of her. And I dont mean her father

Who cares? In my opinion it is the most overrated drug in the world.