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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor

Europe is running out of hope Trump is still open to persuasion over Ukraine

Keir Starmer hands an invitation from King Charles III for a second state visit to US president Donald Trump at the White House
UK prime minister Keir Starmer hands an invitation from King Charles III for a second state visit to US president Donald Trump at the White House on 27 February 2025. Photograph: Carl Court/Getty Images

In the Four Quartets TS Eliot wrote “humankind cannot bear very much reality”.

At moments in history like these, when there is simply too much head-spinning change and too many postwar assumptions being ripped from their moorings, it sometimes appears too much for any human to absorb, let alone offer a response.

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