On Sept. 30, 1938, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain along with leaders of Nazi Germany, the French Republic and Fascist Italy made a deal known as the Munich Agreement. This pact ceded the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia to Germany. Done without Czechoslovakia’s participation — and thus also known as the “Munich Betrayal” — it was an attempt to appease Adolph Hitler. But it failed to do so, and soon thereafter the Nazis invaded Poland, launching the Second World War.
Presently, Donald Trump claims that Vladimir Putin, a dictator, has a valid claim to Ukraine and that the duly elected president of Ukraine is himself a dictator. The entire world knows that this is malicious mis-information.
Trump’s lie that Ukraine is responsible for the war, his cozying up to Putin and his lies about President Volodymyr Zelensky and the legitimate rights of the Ukrainian people are a modern day betrayal (with apologies to Chamberlain, who most historians maintain believed he was doing what was necessary to save Western European democracy). Given the historical evidence of the Munich Betrayal and the history of aggression in general we know that we must strenuously oppose brutal dictators and megalomaniacal heads of state.
