Posted on 02/13/2025 5:31:44 AM PST by dennisw
With president's 'peace talks' compared to Chamberlain appeasing Hitler
Donald Trump's concessions on Ukraine have played into the hands of Vladimir Putin, experts have warned, at a time when intelligence chiefs say Moscow is preparing its military for a major war in Europe.
US defence chief Pete Hegseth told European counterparts on Wednesday that Ukraine's dream of returning to its pre-2014 borders was an 'illusionary goal' and that Kyiv's wish for NATO membership was 'not realistic'.
His statements are widely seen as a major victory for Putin and a devastating blow to Kyiv, which as a result could be forced to cede vast swathes of territory without the prospect of a security guarantee.
'I tell you they're drinking vodka straight out of the bottle in the Kremlin tonight,' Trump's former national security adviser John Bolton told CNN. 'It was a great day for Moscow.'
Analysts have warned that appeasing Putin could result in history repeating itself, with former Swedish Prime Minister Carl Bildt accusing Trump of an historical sell-out of Ukraine.
'It's certainly an innovative approach to a negotiation to make very major concessions even before they have started,' he said. 'Not even Chamberlain went that low in 1938. That Munich ended very bad anyhow.'
Bildt is among a number of experts who have drawn comparisons between Trump's statements and British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's 'peace for our time' declaration.
The Allies' concessions to Adolf Hitler, which included the annexation of territory, came a year before Hitler invaded Poland, triggering World War II.
The deal was known as the Munich Agreement - and now discussions over the fate of Ukraine are set to be held at a security conference in the German city on Friday.
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Russia is a paper bear. It doesn’t have the military capability and the Russian people are tired of war.
...and it’s all Trump’s fault.
heh.
Europe can either do what it did in the 1930s and ignore all the warning signs, or Europe can prepare for it’s own defenses.
It comes down to that. Plain and simple.
What a crock of b s...
If the EU can’t pick up their own game, I am not willing to help in WW III, to again bail the crazies out.
They are more worried about not having enough Muslim rapists.
Spy chiefs? Lol. More like spy thieves of our money.
I am very pro-Ukraine, but this stuff is over the top. Putin will be dead or decommissioned in a few years. Poland is arming up massively, with our help. Same for other European nations.
But if Muslins create more and more chaos in European nations, they become more tempting targets to Putin and revanchists at the Kremlin,
Russia can’t decisively defeat a third rate Ukraine (admittedly over-supplied by us). I don’t think their logistics tail could make it past Poland.
Paper Bear, indeed.
What a friggin rag. I hope the USAID money cuts cause the Dailypile to go out of business
“Now Putin is poised to invade Europe...”
With what, his good looks.
Russia, Russia, Russia. Did 51 intelligence officers leak this?
EVERY country should take Ukraine as a warning to sufficiently provide for their OWN defenses.
Russian can’t even take Ukraine without losing hundreds of thousands of men.
They will never invade a NATO country.
They’ve lost a lot of men, just as Ukraine has. I don’t think they can make an invasion force in 5 years.
Ol’ Joltin’ Bolton trying to make himself relevant in a world where he doesn’t even have security clearances any longer. He is in a category with Peter Strzk.
Absolutely. This anti-Trump fear mongering is ridiculous. Russia is exhausted militarily and socially. They have almost zero ability for any offensive military action. This is all about trying to slime Trump. Nothing more.
When you cut your teeth as a neocon (military-industrial complex lackey) in the Soviet era, it is hard to see the threat of China that we very much don’t want paired with Russia—or the potential for peace that Trump keeps delivering.
Suffering from a lack of trucks and decisive hits on railways and blown bridges, not to mention a lack of fuel, Russian military has no logistics tail.
Right. They couldn’t even take out Ukraine in three years, so EU is next... idiots.
First Hitler was Hitler. Than Trump was Hitler. Now Putin is Hitler. I’m confused./s
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