This is much worse than Munich
In Munich in 1938, Chamberlain and Daladier made the wrong decision, but they were driven by honorable motives. Chamberlain was weak but wanted to preserve short-term peace at all costs; Daladier was entirely lucid, but he had taken a look at the state of preparation of the French forces and wanted to buy time to rearm (as he did).
Trump and his clique of incompetent, nasty sycophants are an entirely different matter. Without any pretense of doing the right thing, following the clue of the worst figures in history, they are exercising raw, unchecked power, using the sheer language of might. Two and a half centuries of US democracy and its defense (however imperfect) of human rights have been discarded overnight. So have the lessons of WWII and the bitterly-reached triumph of civilization against dictatorship and barbarism.
It is Europe’s turn to step in. Defending Ukraine is defending us all.
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