In 1884-85 European powers held a conference in Berlin to settle the issue of which country would get which part of Africa. The conference was an attempt to avoid a war among the European countries over the colonial territories. Many of the current boundaries of African countries were drawn at that meeting. No Africans were invited to the Berlin Conference.
In 1938 a number of European counties, including Germany, England, and France, met in Munich to discuss what to do about Czechoslovakia. Hitler wanted a piece of that country called the Sudetenland. The European powers agreed to carve off that portion of the country and give it to Germany. The Prime Minister of England got off the plane waving a piece of paper and declared that he had brought “peace in our time.” Czechoslovakia was not invited to the Munich Conference.
Now Trump is meeting with Putin in Alaska. They will discuss Ukraine. Ukraine was not invited to the Alaska Conference.
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