It's certainly an innovative approach to a negotiation to make very major concessions even before they have started,
He will rearm and he will be back. His stated aim is that Ukraine doesn't really exist,
I don't trust Putin an inch,
There can’t be negotiations around Ukraine without Ukraine being at the heart of it.”
This year’s gathering seems set to mirror the disastrous conference of 1938 where the continent stood blind in the face of Hitler’s duplicity. The stench of appeasement is once again returning to Munich.”
We cannot accept it, as an independent country, any agreements without us.”
They’re drinking vodka straight out of the bottle in the Kremlin tonight.”
Once again, in this city, a peace deal is being stitched together by ceding terrain to an aggressor in the hope of avoiding a wider conflict. The strategy of “Peace in Our Time,” as Chamberlain famously claimed in 1938, has no better chance of success today.”
We both reflected on the Great History of our Nations,
History has taught us that peace negotiations never succeed without the involvement of all the interested parties,
Viewed from Washington, the idea of carving up the map in Europe might look like a pragmatic deal, even if history tells us that that always ends badly,
Trump’s call seems, before any negotiations, to have ceded key elements of the discussion before it begins,
This is less the Art of a Deal and more a charter for appeasement.”
History has shown time and again that appeasement fails,
There can be no negotiation about Ukraine without Ukraine.”
It would be a betrayal if they would seek to impose a solution,
The reason why the occupation of Eastern Europe at the end of that war did not lead to World War III was that the United States filled any possible vacuum and contained further aggression,