Only a fool would want war in Ukraine to continue - but Trump cannot cave in to Putin

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : When it comes to public spending we, like many other Nato members, have chosen welfare over warfare, last year's modest increase in spending notwithstanding.
51% : In May 2023 at a CNN Town Hall meeting, Donald Trump, already well advanced in his campaign to become president of the United States again, said: "They're dying, Russians and Ukrainians.
50% : It would be an attack on the sovereign territory of a Nato member and, for what it is worth, on a member of the EU.
48% : That should be a simple message for Trump the Peacemaker to understand; as should be the point that making peace and running up the white flag are seldom the same thing.
45% : Since Trump is not renowned for observing the niceties of his position, it may well be a hopeful sign that he has played down his earlier rhetoric about an instant solution to the Ukraine problem and become more discreet, by his standards.
43% : In Britain we are witnessing the fastest decline in the standing of a newly elected government in living memory, its credibility shattered, and with a foreign secretary few in the diplomatic world feel able to take entirely seriously, and who has an impressive record of insulting Trump.
41% : One reason it won't work is that the State Department in Washington is not so stupid as to have it on its list of options for Trump.
39% : Moreover, if America's Nato allies believe their resolve not to hand Putin a victory is compromised by pressure from Trump, the coherence of the alliance, and indeed its whole future, could be threatened.
39% : If the other members want to take Trump on once he is back in the White House, because there are aspects of his foreign policy they don't like, they should remember there might be severe consequences for their security.
38% : Trump will hold the whip hand in Nato, and will feel his allies are in no position to give America, the organisation's main funder, lectures on foreign policy.
26% : Hence the mounting tension about what Trump may, or may not, seek to do.
24% : America, as the world's leading power and having under the Biden administration supplied Ukraine with many of the means to fight its war, will clearly be central to any talks, whether they are formally suggested by Trump or not.
18% : During his election campaign, as during his first term, Trump complained about the European contingent in Nato not paying its way.

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