Calls to cancel Donald Trump’s second state visit to the UK are understandable (Letters, 2 March), but not necessarily helpful in terms of achieving a peace deal for Ukraine and a reduction in Vladimir Putin’s influence. For those reasons, he should not only come but should be treated as a statesman by politicians and the royal family.
This does not, of course, mean that the public should tread the same path. Given that he basks in attention, one option is to give him none: let him drive along empty roads and parade in front of no one who does not need to be there. There is another option: I’d put money on the idea that what he hates more than anything else is to be laughed at. Very, very loudly.
Anne Cowper
Swansea
• If proper attention had been paid to the courageous women of Greenham Common 43 years ago, George Monbiot wouldn’t need to be telling us now: “By tying our defence so closely to the US, our governments have created an insecurity state” (The question no one dares ask: what if Britain has to defend itself from the US?, 27 February).
Laura Conyngham
Crediton, Devon
• Stephen Wertheim suggests that the US has no obligation to preserve Ukrainian sovereignty (Is Europe misunderstanding Trump’s position on Ukraine?, 3 March).
This position ignores the fact that the US committed to do so in signing the Budapest memorandum in 1994, when Ukraine unilaterally abandoned its nuclear arsenal.
Jan Kamieniecki
London
• If history is repeating itself, what will be the Pearl Harbor moment? (Keir Starmer says Europe ‘at crossroads in history’ and must support Ukraine, 2 March).
Richard Harley
Alresford, Hampshire
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