Sir, – The letter from Lynn Boylan, Sinn Féin MEP, on Ukraine presents itself as measured and principled (Letters, February 20th). In reality, it rests on a dangerous naivety about the nature of this war and the character of the regime prosecuting it.
No one disputes the value of diplomacy. No one celebrates war. But to speak airily of a “credible diplomatic strategy running in parallel” while casting suspicion on sustained military support is to ignore a basic and brutal fact: negotiations have mea
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