BACKGROUND
1) Stefanie Bolzen, Alfred Hackensberger, und Dominik Kalus, “UKRAINE-KRIEG: ‘Er hat sogar mein Wahlkampfmotto gebraucht’, freut sich Trump nach dem Telefonat mit Putin,” Die Welt, den 13. Februar 2924 (03:31);
2) Stefanie Bolzen, Alfred Hackensberger, and Dominik Kalus, “UKRAINE WAR: ‘He even needed my campaign motto,’ Trump rejoices after the phone call with Putin,” Die Welt, February 13, 2025 (3:31 a.m.);
The echoes of Munich in September 1938 were deafening, as Donald Trump began selling out Ukraine to Russian dictator Vladimir Putin on February 12, 2025.
At Munich, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and French Prime Minister Ėdouard Daladier agreed with Italy and Germany to cede the German-speaking Sudetenland, a part of Czechoslovakia, to Germany and Adolf Hitler who threatened a large-scale invasion to seize the territory. This agreement was negotiated over heads of the Czechs who were not allowed to participate in negotiations over the future of their own country.
This was the culminating act of Chamberlain’s policy of appeasement of Germany. The policy did not work, as hit violated the agreement iwhen he invaded the rest of Czechoslovakia (so-called “rump Czechoslovakia”) in March 1939, and Poland on September 1, 1939.
Donald Trump is reportedly a “Russian sset”, and he has lost no time in setting out to do Putin’s work.
Paul Hegseth, the former Fox news commentator and now U.S. Defense Secretary gave away Trump’s position at the Munich Security Conference, stating that 1) NATO membership for Ukraine was out of the question, and 2) that it was “unrealistic” for Ukraine to expect to return to its (internationally-recognized) borders before jthe Russian invasions in) 2014.
Look for more pro-Russian actions from Donald Trump, the American president who is reliably reported to ba a “Russian asset”.
Donald Trump is a brilliant politician and manipulatorr of popular opinion.
When it comes ton substantive foreign policy, he is a profoundly ignorant and stupid man, as suggested by his statements tgat tge U.S. would “take” and own Gaza and take back the Panama Canal.
He is a the zenith of his grandiosity at the moment. zhe is about to learn that the realities of international politics are more intractible than he might have imagined.
While he disdains all law, he is also about to learn tgat international law has teeth and cannot be ignored at his whim.
Any agreement recognizing Russian territorial gains achieved by military conquest would be void under peremptory norms of international law (jus cogens) from which there can be no derogation, not even by agreement between the parties.
Even if Trump and Putin reached agreement recognizing its territorial gains acquitted by military conquest, and coerced Ukraine into accepting it, the agreement would be void under international law.
This Trump will have to learn the hard way when other countries refuse to recognize or support any such agreement.
The United States is looking at four years of foreign policy led by an incredibly ignorant and stupid president.