See my #34 above.
I could care less about the diplomats.
Diplomacy has never resolved any crisis, at any time in the last few centuries, and/or anywhere in the world. All diplomacy has done is prolong crises.
History is replete with examples of the failure of diplomacy, going back way before Neville getting off that plane waving his piece of paper.
The longer I live, the more I agree with Nietzsche’s oft-expressed belief that might makes right.