Trump’s Ukraine plan isn’t just evil. It’s worse: incompetent.
Russia wrote the peace plan. Trump's envoy coached the Kremlin. And nobody in charge understands what they're negotiating. Stephen Blank on a foreign policy process in freefall.
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“Made me sick to my stomach”: Lawmakers launch bipartisan push to stop Ukraine peace deal they call “Munich-style agreement”
The 1938 agreement between Nazi Germany, the United Kingdom, France, and Italy is seen as a failed attempt to maintain peace in Europe by ceding the Sudetenland, a region of Czechoslovakia, to Hitler. Instead, it opened doors to World War II.
Estonia invokes “Munich 1938“ as Trump prepares Putin talks
Estonia’s foreign minister has invoked one of history’s most ominous diplomatic moments to warn about Friday’s Trump-Putin meeting in Alaska — comparing it to the 1938 Munich Agreement that greenlit Hitler’s expansion.
Sweden’s former leader confronts Trump: “You’re repeating Munich’s fatal mistake”
History's darkest deal returns as Trump excludes Ukraine from its own fate.
France and UK face historic choice as Trump signals Ukraine abandonment
As America retreats from Ukraine, Europe's nuclear powers stand at a crossroads. France and Britain's decision could determine whether Ukraine faces Russia alone or benefits from the same nuclear deterrence that maintained peace during the Cold War.
The 1938 Munich disaster taught the world these five ironclad security lessons. The 2025 one proved Trump has forgotten them all
Trump's messy Ukraine gambit hints he's set to crush lessons from the 1938 Munich "peace deal" that has been shielding global security and America's power from another world war
Chamberlain’s ghost haunts the Ukraine peace talks
Have we learned nothing from appeasing aggressors?
“Don’t rescue Putin in Ukraine,” Steve Forbes warns Trump
Steve Forbes suggests Ukraine's reconstruction via frozen Russian assets and military bases but also proposes that Ukraine cede land to Russia.
Czech PM warns against appeasing Putin in Russo-Ukrainian war
Petr Fiala stresses the importance of continued Ukraine support, announces Czech defense spending increases.
100+ officials, experts warn of 1938 Munich-like betrayal of Ukraine as US votes
107 former and serving Western diplomats, politicians, military and intel chiefs appeal for a coalition of willing NATO nations to boost support to Kyiv.