I think a big part of this being cancelled at this late stage is Europe stepping up and offering peace keepers. I do not think Trump counted on that and wanted the deal with basically no peacekeepers. All along, he was was no to supplying security.

This would have given putin time to rebuild and carte blanche to renew the attack when he was able. Putin can’t do that if Europe is in Ukraine as that would be a massive escalation.

It also cobbled in groups from Exchange, and the Collab site from SharePoint. Its pretty much three raccoons in a trench-coat.

Speaking as someone who fits the description and currently working on my license for UK Ham (direct to full) I will be using voice. Reason being calling a CQ is pretty structured and you can read it off a script, the response is fairly structured as well, and you can just do that if you want, no obligation to branch off into actual unstructured conversation unless you want to.

Plus as others have mentioned there are plenty of ways were you can still participate without having to physically speak to other people, RTTY or automatically translated morse would be ok.