Answer the second question accurately, and you’ll understand why the answer to the first is “they wouldn’t”.
The only way to deter nuclear war is with the promise of retaliation.
Zelensky was there, not as a leader in his own right, but as a prop for the Trump show.
How exactly could President Zelenskyy lose a deal, that was already ‘done’ with a man who loves ‘to do deals.’ How the heck did he manage that?
“I do not say that lightly.”
For those in Ireland who ferociously oppose things like “an EU army”, then the basic reality is that Donald Trump’s policies on Ukraine and EU defence make that kind of thing vastly more likely.
Grown-ups know not to light matches in the airing cupboard where the linen is tinder-dry or to go searching for a gas leak with a lit candle.
Why the figures in the Republic tell us much more than the figures in the North
Irish politicians have a major problem on this issue, which is this: On this topic, few would argue that they do not represent the voting public.
Don’t poke the bear?
“Such has been the systematic infantilisation of Irish popular opinion that this dependency is not a subject for national shame.”
Western public opinion – or at least the peacenik element of it – is actively incentivising Mr. Putin to break the nuclear taboo.