Politico: How Munich’s concessions in 1938 in Nazi Germany haunt Washington’s talks in 2025

The delivery of fortifications to an expansive neighbor, determined to destroy your state, rarely proves to be a good idea, Politico writes in an article. In 1938, the concession of the Suddians – one area full of forests, trenches and fortifications – led to the rapid collapse of Czechoslovakia’s defense against Nazi Germany. (ed. On 29/09/1938 in Munich the four -day conference between Germany (Hitler), England (Chamberlene), France (Dalandier), Italy (Mussolini), decided to deliver Czechoslovakia the area of Suditia in Germany). Today, in Europe, fears that Ukraine’s ability to resist will be affected in a similar way if Donald Trump under Vladimir Putin’s influence presses Kiev to deliver Donbas’ key defensive lines. Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenski went to Washington on Monday to meet Trump, a few days after the US president’s meeting with Putin. For Zelenski, any “offer” of Donbas to the Russian leader would undermine any peace agreement and give to Moscow […]
Source: News Beast

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