Prior to the outbreak of WWII, an expansionist Hitler demanded self-determination for all German-speaking peoples living in the Sudetenland - asserting that they should no longer be part of Czechoslovakia and Austria
Posted on 08/18/2025 12:47:42 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
President Donald Trump presented Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky with a large map showing the 20% of the country under Russian control.
During the Oval Office meeting on Monday, a large map depicting the current battlefield status of the war was presented to Zelensky.
The eastern part of the map was shaded in pink to represent the nearly 20% of the country under control by Putin's forces after the nearly four-year war.
The map may play a roll in pressuring Zelensky to consider transferring territory in order to seal a peace agreement.
Zelensky arrived to the White House for historic talks with President Donald Trump and aimed at ending the Ukraine-Russia war.
Zelensky was joined by UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron, Italy's Giorgia Meloni, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Germany’s Friedrich Merz and more.
The Ukrainian president appeared without a tie for the meeting. It was a bold statement after his appearance in military fatigues stirred controversy during his last Oval Office visit six months ago.
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WIKI
Sequence of events following the Munich Agreement:
1. The Sudetenland became part of Germany in accordance with the Munich Agreement (October 1938).
2. Poland annexes Trans-Olza, an area with a Polish plurality, over which the two countries had fought a war in 1919 (October 1938).
3. Border areas (southern third of Slovakia and southern Carpathian Ruthenia) with Hungarian minorities became part of Hungary in accordance with the First Vienna Award (November 1938).
4. On 15 March 1939, during the German invasion of the remaining Czech territories, Hungary annexes the remainder of Carpathian Ruthenia (which had been autonomous since October 1938).
5. Germany establishes the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia with a puppet government, on 16 March 1939.
6. On 14 March 1939, a pro-Hitler Catholic-fascist government declares the Slovak Republic, as an Axis client state.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_Agreement
So what is your point ?
The CCCP was gone .
There were in Ukraine possesion .
If Trump achieves peace he will be re-elected.
The fantasy that Ukraine deserves to be returned land for which the Russians lost hundreds of thousands of lives taking is what will keep this war going until there is no more Ukraine.
Why even bother? The Ukranian lines are collapsing, the EU economy is crashing and can’t pay for the war, all Russia needs to do is to keep moving forwards.
The one thing I can think of for Russia slowing down and offering peace is to have a non-Nato piece of land (what remains of Ukraine) between it and Europe, or perhaps Putin had high regard for Trump and wanted to meet him again and see if there is a chance for Trump to remove some sanctions.
If you go to the original source article, the word is spelled correctly. Something happened between there and here...
Prior to the outbreak of WWII, an expansionist Hitler demanded self-determination for all German-speaking peoples living in the Sudetenland - asserting that they should no longer be part of Czechoslovakia and Austria
Did you just make that BS up Putin Groupie .
Russia was in shambles .
Your Putie the KGB butcher dictator dragged up the hate of NATO .
Does Russia pay well for astroturfing ?
You should be ecstatic if that’s true since you’ve been a Trump hater from the get go. However, I think you’ll be disappointed once again.
Trump is not up for re election .
Nice Russian BS Spin .
Are you from the US. ?
It isn't.
My God. What a losing screed you wrote. So now you know all and the future. Stand down and watch it play out.
It is true that Zelensky needs more warm bodies, but I’ll pass.
Zelensky is having success with his FORCED Conscription Squads
roaming and snatching Military age citizens in Kiev to replenish
the warm male bodies he needs.
[picture of roll]
Yummy! Almost took my mind off of politics!
Shut your rattling, sht-talking head and go TF back into the rotting log you crawled out of.
“There were in Ukraine possesion.”
Nuclear weapons are kept guarded.
The nuclear weapons were under guard at the time Ukraine became independent.
One minute before independence the guards would have been under the command of people in Moscow.
One minute after the start of independence the guards would have been under the command of people in Moscow.
Two minutes after the start of independence....
In 1861, the Confederacy was created. The guns at Fort Sumter didn’t become Confederate at the time of creation.
Sorry, I met the midterms.
Sad you imply that true Americans are those that buy into the koolaid that keeping the war going is OK and that Putin is devil incarnate. BS Spin, as you say.
I dont hate anyone . Trump is a fool to trust KGB butcher Putin .
Its sadly the truth .
“Those who forget history are condemned to repeat it “.George Santayana .
Recall Chamberland and Sudetenland .
EU helmets along a 680-mile DMZ line of pure rubble. The middle part of that line will be impossible to hold, the EU will be shot at from both sides. POP THE POPCORN!
Putin a sweet trusting soul.
Just ask the East Germans he ordered Butchered at the Berlin Wall .
Putin the KGB butcher oversaw the Stasi in East Germany .
Did you ever see it in person .
I did in the late 1980s
I saw the
real Putin in action .
Which is another reason Canada is a mess with Quebec and the French language.
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