In an opinion piece today Thomas Friedman compared Donald Trump to Neville Chamberlain, the British Prime Minister who went to Munich and gave Hitler a piece of Czechoslovakia, an act which led Hitler to believe he could get away with further aggression. As Friedman pointed out, Chamberlain at least was trying to achieve peace.
Trump’s betrayal of Ukraine and Zelenskyy has a different purpose. It is to lower diesel fuel to help a few Republican congress members win their elections. It is the complete betrayal of a democratic ally, and harms a nation we were pledged to protect in return for it giving up its nuclear weapons.
It gets worse. Just as Chamberlain led Hitler to an awareness of the weakness of Britain and France, Trump’s actions will encourage further aggression by Russian and perhaps China. There is a term for giving “aid and comfort” to an enemy.
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