calling what trump is doing in ukraine appeasement is excessively kind to trump and grotesquely unfair to chamberlain et al. for all his faults, chamberlain wasnt rooting for hitler. - ThreadSky

eliasisquith.blog • 2 days ago

calling what trump is doing in ukraine appeasement is excessively kind to trump and grotesquely unfair to chamberlain et al.

for all his faults, chamberlain wasnt rooting for hitler.

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txlawyer.bsky.social•2 days ago

Would it have been better for Chamberlain to have cut a deal with Hitler to split the Sudetenland's resources 50/50?

benjicardoso.bsky.social•2 days ago

Yup, Trump and Putin are allies, this is not incompetence, nor is it some “conspiracy”, for that matter. They are and always have been sincere and open allies.

hilzoy.bsky.social•2 days ago

Molotov-Ribbentrop seems like a better analogy.

sbhist.bsky.social•2 days ago

It might be worse than Molotov-Ribbentrop! (depending on how much weight one wants to put on the postwar Soviet narrative)

nicholasgrossman.bsky.social•2 days ago

I'm right there with you

eliasisquith.blog•2 days ago

also to be frank it's a sign of how disconnected and in denial elite US opinion has become — how intensely American exceptionalism is leading to people failing to recognize what is right in front of their noses — to call it appeasement rather than collaboration. it's fucking pathological.

rocketmummy.bsky.social•2 days ago

“Willingly playing second banana to and following the desires of a second-rate imperial state that fundamentally hates us” feels like one of those things that would have resulted in a search for something impeachable to hang on a president to get him out of office in a different era.

eliasisquith.blog•2 days ago

nowhere else in the world do people see trump doing everything he can to make putin happy and fulfill putin's wildest dreams and conclude "ah, yes, trump lacks resolve in confronting putin. the problem is that he's too afraid of putin to do what he knows is right." it's just absolutely nonsense.

johnlk.bsky.social•2 days ago

He's Stalin, not Chamberlain.

dtobon.bsky.social•1 day ago

No that was just certain members of the royal family.

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