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Here we go again.

In 1938 the leaders of Germany, Great Britain, France and Italy met in Munich and came up with the Munich Agreement which allowed Nazi Germany to annex the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia. Since then, this had been known as the epitome of “Appeasement,” or giving in to a bully, in this case a dictator, in order to preserve an elusive peace.

It seems we’re headed in the same direction today with regard to Ukraine. Our intellectual challenged President is hell-bent on selling out Ukraine to strongman Vladimir Putin of Russia. There’s a meeting scheduled in Saudi Arabia, without Ukraine’s participation, to “achieve peace.” How can you have a peace conference on Ukraine without the Ukrainians present? Simple, you sell them out to the highest bidder. And by that we mean Putin. This will not “Bring peace in our time,” as was proclaimed by British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, when he gave in to Hitler over the future of Czechoslovakia. This was 1938. A year later the world was at war.

If this meeting goes through, Trump is going to get snookered by his buddy, Putin. And Ukraine will come out the loser. You can’t appease a dictator set on rebuilding the old Russian Empire. Trump will discover this soon enough when Putin sets his eyes on Estonia or Latvia or former regions of the old defunct Soviet Union. Worse yet, will Trump just sit by when Putin decides to attack a Nato ally? We’ll see.