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What a shame that this year's gathering in Munich seems set to mirror the disastrous conference of 1938, where the continent stood blind to the face of Hitler's duplicity
Talks with Russians in Munich are not expected."
Ukrainian communications adviser, Dmytro Lytvyn, responding to Trump's invite said in statement My message in these discussions will be that there can be no negotiation about Ukraine without Ukraine and Ukraine's voice must be at the heart of any talks,
Russia remains a threat well beyond Ukraine."
Earlier, UK defence secretary John Healey said Ukraine needs to be in the strongest possible position. Ukrainians want peace. Those that have had to flee the country want to go back to their country. But this has to be led by Ukraine. There's no negotiations about Ukraine which doesn't involve Ukraine, and Ukraine needs to be in the strongest possible position.”
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,
Wallace said in an interview with Times Radio There can’t be negotiations around Ukraine without Ukraine being at the heart of it.”
They’re drinking vodka straight out of the bottle in the Kremlin tonight.”
John Bolton, Mr Trump’s former national security adviser, said We cannot accept it, as an independent country, any agreements without us.”
Mr Zelensky urged the world 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.”
This is less the Art of a Deal and more a charter for appeasement.”
Speaking in the House of Commons too, Labour MP Johanna Baxter said of Trump’s actions 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,
former Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith said in a message History has taught us that peace negotiations never succeed without the involvement of all the interested parties,
Tory MP Neil Shastri-Hurst, who previously served in the British Army, said in a statement History has shown time and again that appeasement fails,
Conservative MP David Reed, who used to serve in the Royal Marines, told POLITICO in a statement It would be a betrayal if they would seek to impose a solution,
he told POLITICO of the U.S. and Russian talks, while warning 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,
And so, the American point of view will also be presented on stage, as will the European point of view, and that of other regions. And then, and that is what Munich stands for, there will be a dialogue, a discussion about the many issues at hand,
