Former President Donald Trump has privately said he could end Russia’s war in Ukraine by pressuring its embattled government to give up territory, the Washington Post reported, despite the repeated and vehement refusal of Ukraine's leaders to cede any land in the conflict.
Trump has said publicly he could end the war within a day of returning to the presidency, although he has revealed few details of his plan. The Post − citing people who discussed the plans with Trump or his advisers and spoke on the condition of anonymity because those conversations were confidential − said Trump wants to pressure Ukraine to cede Crimea and the Donbas border regions to Russia.
That would be the boldest move for peace since Neville Chamberlain secured peace on the Eurpoean continent in 1938. And it would be just as long-lasting, just as effective as Chamberlain's declaration.
Putin has not wavered in his goal to conquer all of Ukraine.
Except Trump wouldn't prepare. He would do everything in his power to smooth over Putin's road to restoration of the Russian Empire, including turning his back on Europe. Just as the Republicans tried their level best to do in 1940.
If Trump has his way, by 2027 at the latest, there will be another general war in Europe. Oh, he may say that isn't his goal and the toadies on the GOP will bury their heads in the sand and say they don't want to see it, but it will happen.
And instead of opening the pipelines and giving the Ukrainians everything they need (which, by the way, is mostly made by American companies), we will, once again, send our young men and yes, women, to fight and die in the mud of Europe.
So, conservatives, why do you want to see our people go fight another world war in Europe? Why do you want to run the risk of a thermonuclear conflict? Or are you that willfully blind to the reality facing the globe?
"So, conservatives, why..."
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In Chamberlain's partial defense, the first operational Spitfire squadron was only a month old.
ReplyDeleteBut the Luftwaffe was as weak or weaker, and they didn't have their later bases in the Low Countries and France yet, and their airplanes didn't have the range to strike England effectively from Germany itself.
ReplyDeleteGoebbels & Co. hyped the alleged overwhelming might of the Luftwaffe to, well, the skies--and Chamberlain and some of his advisers fell for it hook, line, sinker, and flopping in the boat.
Ivory Bill, as assisted by that famous American Nazi sympathizer, Charles Lindberg.
ReplyDelete"Chamberlain promised it would bring “peace in our time”, but Churchill scolded him for “throwing a small state to the wolves” in exchange for a promise of peace.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking after Chamberlain signed the Munich Agreement, Winston Churchill said: “You were given the choice between war and dishonour. You chose dishonour and you will have war.”
A year later, on 1 September 1939, Hitler broke his promise and launched the invasion of Poland. Peace was shattered. By 3 September 1939, Britain was once again at war with Germany. Chamberlain declared war against Hitler, but during the next eight months, showed himself to be ill equipped for the daunting task of saving Europe from Nazi conquest.
After British forces failed to prevent the German occupation of Norway in April 1940, Chamberlain lost the support of many members of his Conservative Party. By May 1940, the Allies were losing, and on 10 May 1940, Hitler invaded Holland, Belgium, and the Netherlands.
The same day, Chamberlain formally lost the confidence of the House of Commons, so he resigned. In the face of the Nazis’ relentless march across Europe, Chamberlain bowed to pressure and resigned as Prime Minister."
https://www.historyextra.com/period/second-world-war/did-appeasement-cause-second-world-war-policy-how-why/
Spitfires got the pub, Hurricanes got the kills, First Hurricane squadron was activated in December of 1937, with the first radar stations coming online earlier that year. Spitfires got 529 kills to the Hurricanes 656.
ReplyDeleteArguing over the deck chairs on the Titanic? All of the Western democracy signs said Putin wouldn't invade Ukraine when they did. Emile Servan Schreiber runs Hypermind and he couldn't believe it.
ReplyDeleteProfessor Emile Servan-Schreiber is a cognitive psychologist and a pioneer in digital collective intelligence. Since 2000, he has been running Hypermind, a company specializing in collective forecasting and decision platforms. As a researcher, he has participated in several major US government studies on the wisdom of crowds, and he is a founding member of the School of Collective Intelligence at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (Morocco). Previously, he worked as an artificial intelligence engineer and advised the OECD on its “brain and learning” program. He is the author of the book “Supercollectif” (Fayard, 2018) and of the CD-ROM “Secrets of the Mind” (Ubisoft, 1997; Softkey, 2004).
https://programmeoctave.com/en/member/emile-servan-schreiber/
The problem of collective psychology and forecasting is that while a
ReplyDeletecrowds behavior can be predicted any one individuals behavior cannot.
From that Putin, El Duce, Hitler, Stalin are the random factor in an
otherwise predictable cases. We allow the random individual become
a controlling factor when they are obviously out of control. The crowd
if only to survive follows.
So to me Putin invading Ukraine especially after Crimea was never an
IF, only a when. His bag of tricks are important to keeping the folks
at home in line. After all they are the cannon fodder.
So anyone that didn't see it must have missed WWII and what made it
such a large conflagration.
Eck!
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