Alex Thomson

as you heard there from your news report, they are returning, sometimes in defiance of the areas to which the Israelis say they should not go back to.

Well, the off-ramp, to use that cliche that everybody's using.

Well, I mean, it's difficult because Donald Trump, we know, shows no temperament for any kind of long-term, in-depth diplomacy.

And don't forget, to get to the nuclear deal, the West had a reasonable nuclear deal with the Iranians right there, working on the table, functioning.

Donald Trump tore it up.

Now, Donald Trump, as we've seen with previous, you know, we've seen with his the rhetoric that the wild rhetoric that he's used everywhere from Panama to Canada to Greenland to saying he would fix the Ukraine war with Russia in a day and has walked away from it without an abject diplomatic failure.

That is not a great track record, and this almost infantile approach to want to have instant solutions to these matters is going to go nowhere.

So it's very hard to see the Americans getting away from this unless there's some kind of sea change in the atmospherics, in the diplomacy, in the whole leadership from the United States, from Donald Trump.

And that means changing Donald Trump's approach.

I don't see any evidence of that.

And I don't think any of your listeners do.

He was against the war.

He finds it pointless.

He went to the last talks in Islamabad, which he came after 21 hours in the last session, came away completely empty-handed.

It's probably a sidebar, but he went to Islamabad via, of course, Hungary to interfere in the Orban election.

That also blew up in his face.

So the man has a recent track record of complete, almost comical failure on the diplomatic front.

But yet we've got the same team supposedly going back.

But at the moment, they haven't got anybody to talk to.

Yes, I mean, as ever with Donald J. Trump, do not take at face value or even believe anything that comes out of his mouth.