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Maduro is an expert in hanging on ... The US knows Maduro very well. Donald Trump dealt with Maduro from 2017 to 2021 he tried to create an exit for Maduro, a political one through elections. That didn't work, and I think Trump has learned his lesson in order on how to deal with Maduro this time."

We should not be surprised by the US security strategy...fundamentally Donald Trump has problem with the European Union...the contradictions come thick and fast but it's time frankly that the European Union and leaders in Brussels and across member state woke up to the reality of Donald Trump and stopped wishing he were different."

Negotiators are “trying to square circles that simply cannot be squared,” said H.A. Hellyer, a senior associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, a defense and security think tank in London. He wondered whether an international stabilization force could really dismantle Hamas, a target Israel was unable to achieve through two years of a “brutal” military operation. While Trump’s peace plan stipulates that Hamas will disarm, the group has reasserted control of Gaza during the first phase of the ceasefire and shown no immediate signs of disarmament. Disarming Hamas through military intervention is “not exactly something that any other power is going to be interested in,” he told NBC News. And when it comes to Gaza’s governance, Hellyer added, “Trump can create his board of peace,” referring to the group that would sit atop Gaza’s governing structure under Trump’s plan, but “you can’t simply enforce this stuff on the ground without cooperation from the population, unless you just want to turn it into a new type of occupation.”