Comparisons have been drawn between Trump's approach to Ukraine and Chamberlain's acquiescence to Hitler's seizure of part of Czechoslovakia in 1938. This, I think does Chamberlain a disservice, as his desperate motive was to avoid wider war.
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A better comparison might be the pact between Hitler and Stalin a year later agreeing to carve up Poland and the Baltic states. But even that, heinous though it was, could be seen as calculated moves by dictators bent on dominating their neighbors.
Trump, per usual blazes new paths of shame. His motives seem to be no more than his infatuation with Putin, his desire to humiliate and disrupt our (once) European allies, to assist in the subjugation of a valiant people, and to mock any notion that the US has any larger role in the world.
I cannot consider as my own any government that would ally itself with Putin or Putin's Russia, and I disavow any acts taken by Trump or his pathetic lackeys in the name of America.
"The Trump administration seems to have some notion of the conduct of foreign affairs as being a set of deals, chiefly with America’s enemies, while administering kicks to America’s friends and allies. As a vision it is, in some reasonable sense of the word,evil." https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/rubio-putin-trump-ukraine/681730/
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