On September 27, 1938, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain said of Hitler’s designs on Czechoslovakia that it was “A quarrel in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing.” That policy became known as appeasement.
On June 16, 2026, U.S. President Donald Trump said of Putin’s designs on Ukraine, “Look, we have nothing to do with it. It has no impact on us, other than we sell weapons. We’re thousands of miles away.” That policy is known as moral blindness.
The Trump quote is from Eric Green and Zolan Kanno-Youngs, “Trump Rebuffs Ukraine: ‘Nothing to Do With It,’” New York Times, (17 June 2026), p. A-8.
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