"Neville Chamberlain believed that Hitler wouldn’t violate the Munich deal because Hitler respected him. Trump shares that delusion about Putin. We may all pay the price." www.theatlantic.com/internationa... - ThreadSky

stossel.bsky.social • 8 days ago

"Neville Chamberlain believed that Hitler wouldn’t violate the Munich deal because Hitler respected him. Trump shares that delusion about Putin. We may all pay the price."

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/03/putin-hitler-munich-parallel/681973/

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jdt3237.bsky.social•8 days ago

In 1938 Hitler had the opportunity to take over the rest of Czechoslovakia without intervention from the west, and, even though he had 'promised' not to do so, he did so. Most of the population of the Sudetenland was ethnic German. Chamberlain was hard pressed not to allow its annexation by Hitler.

jdt3237.bsky.social•8 days ago

Putin is following basically the same game plan in Ukraine. Soon t will have his 'Munich' style peace deal and then, at a somewhat later date, Putin will take over the rest of the country. Won't happen if the west stands strong behind the rest of Ukraine. With t in lead though, I wouldn't bet on it.

jackhutton.bsky.social•8 days ago

By Robert Kagan.. wow.. thanks for posting...

buddhaweasel.bsky.social•8 days ago

Trump is convinced that he, Xi, and Putin will divide up the world between them. India can keep to itself while the three dear leaders rape Africa and South America for resources. Trump gets to play Emperor of the Americas.

lloyd-frombriz.bsky.social•6 days ago

aguasdemarco.bsky.social•8 days ago

What would make the Dotard believe anyone respects him? At best, people fear him, but Putin despises him. Also, there is no comparison between Chamberlain and the Dotard. The first was naive, the second is a crook.

sagacious24.bsky.social•8 days ago

Putin is the venomous snake and Trump can’t see his own story playing out

elijahplovejoy.bsky.social•8 days ago

justicedelayed.bsky.social•8 days ago

May?

davidherdson.bsky.social•8 days ago

That's questionable. Chamberlain was well aware of Hitler's history of breaking agreements and certainly didn't put the kind of faith that Trump does in personal relations.

If he really believed it was Peace For Our Time, he wouldn't have engaged in rearmament as he did.

shao0603.bsky.social•8 days ago

Trump is Putin’s asset whose code name is Crasnov.

cookieaob.bsky.social•8 days ago

Putin owns him.

prh268.bsky.social•8 days ago

Let's hope that it's not the more cynical Ribbentrop Molotov pact

lon08.bsky.social•7 days ago

You guys continue to give Trump too much credit. He is an active Russian agent, groomed and recruited by Russia to do their bidding which means a wholesale destruction of America. Obvious.

dosomethingplease.bsky.social•8 days ago

Project Russia 2005: "Now we understand that there is a real war. We want to kill, but not with the force of a hand holding a sword, not with the force of gunpowder propelling a bullet, not even with atomic energy.We want to kill using social energy."

sutherla.bsky.social•8 days ago

Ukrainians are already paying that price

strandedinni.bsky.social•8 days ago

No. Trump doesn’t believe that Putin will honour a deal. He doesn’t care, he’s very happy for Putin to gobble up Ukraine, in fact helping him. The appropriate comparison is the Molotov Ribbentrop pact over Poland.

hmsgreengoose.bsky.social•7 days ago

Trump is Chamberlain, Petain, and Hitler in one, but with obvious senility on top and no real experience in military or public policy (even after being POTUS for four years LMAO).

randomprattle.bsky.social•7 days ago

Are you saying Trump is an idiot?

7harmony.bsky.social•8 days ago

…and you know what? MAGA will blame us…

mikechannon.bsky.social•6 days ago

It's widely accepted that Chamberlain knew what was happening and was just stalling so that the UK could rearm.

awoaca.bsky.social•8 days ago

Prolly shouldn't be so trusting.

carolannete.bsky.social•8 days ago

One difference is that Trump wouldn't really care if Trump violates an agreement if it doesn't hurt him personally.

hgprins.bsky.social•8 days ago

Chamberlain was naive, Trump is an evil henchman of Putin...

smiledaydream.bsky.social•8 days ago

I don’t think Trump actually cares.

Hitler may have had more morals than Donald Trump or Elon Musk.

Since 1940 we have had more chances to evaluate morality, ethics, and the effects on other human beings.

Trump and Musk can be aware of that but choose to ignore humanity.

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