This gathering abandonment of Ukraine by the Trump administration is drawing comparisons to the 1938 appeasement of Nazi Germany's Adolph Hitler over Czechoslovakia, with British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain waving the agreement and hailing it as ...
Interestingly, as Townley points out, Russia has taken control of about 20% of Ukraine’s mineral deposits under the territory it now controls (which America would be open to exploiting according to an offer made by Vladimir Putin’s aides at the recent talks in Saudi Arabia).
Chamberlain, the Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1937 to 1940, signed the Munich Agreement in 1938 allowing Nazi Germany to annex Czechoslovakia, which he predicted would guarantee “ peace for our time ” but which history has recalled as a failed attempt to appease German Fuhrer Adolf Hitler before the start of World War II.
IT’S almost 87 years since Neville Chamberlain returned from Munich with a self-satisfied smile on his face and a letter waving in his hand. He promised that it guaranteed peace in our time.
Speakers denounced Russia's invasion of Ukraine and urged continued support for the embattled country and President Volodymyr Zelensky.
As the US and its European allies head to the Munich security conference, Europe must learn from its tragic history and oppose appeasement
Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski of Poland said that Ukraine is too strong to be sold out by foreign powers. "The best guarantee for Ukraine is the almost million-man army, which is manning the foxholes and heroically resisting Russian aggression," he said on CNN's "Fareed Zakaria GPS" in an interview that aired Sunday.
Unsurprisingly, some in Eastern Europe view the current US-Russia talks over Ukraine’s future as a revival of this kind of secret diplomacy that divided the smaller nations of Europe between large powers in the second world war.
Ukraine's children, the youngest victims of the war, are the focus of 'Children in the Fire,' the new documentary directed by Evgeny Afineevsky.
Readers of The Oklahoman on dropping support for Ukraine and firing thousands of federal workers without first understanding what they do.