I'm John Batscher with my colleague Gregory Coppley Defense and Foreign Affairs.

We're discussing the theme of isolationism. The paradox of America both wanting to mind its own business, it does have a very large ocean between here and Europe,

and at the same time America is showing up just in time to rescue Europe twice in the

20th century and maybe for the third time in the 21st not yet determined.

I read a headline from the Financial Times in these last hours.

Donald Trump has well-founded plans for Russia-Ukraine peace talks.

Victor Orban, Prime Minister of Hungary claims.

Subhead.

Hungarian Prime Minister tells EU leaders in a private letter

that Republican candidate would rapidly push to end the war.

Rapidly push, meaning that... rapidly pushed and the war.

Rapidly pushed, meaning that the newly elected president or president elect, because the timeline here is unclear,

would insist that Mr. Zelensky, or his surrogate, enter into

the conversation immediately with the Kremlin, a ceasefire, and a resolution of the matter. This alarms the Financial Times

editorial page. Why, Gregory, they do not have the money, the time, the energy to

continue this war another year.

And if the Financial Times based in London is so concerned about continuing the war with Russia through Ukraine,

why is the Financial Times not raising the issue of the

sad state of the British defence sector, firstly under the outgoing conservative government and under the current

Labour government which is coming in. The reality is that Britain has been the

second biggest provider of aid to Ukraine in the military terms since February 2022.

And there's been no concise reason for Britain to do this other than that it cites a threat of expansion by Russia

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