Op-Ed: Trump’s ‘Munich’ agreement is nothing but Russian demands. The world must reject it.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky urged Hungary to stop blocking Kyiv’s bid to join the EU – Copyright AFP Tetiana DZHAFAROVA

No true American president would even consider lackey status to a foreign country, let alone be a mere errand boy. Russian threats would have been met with force.

The shameful, delusional, cowardly acceptance by the Trump administration of all Russian demands in this so-called “peace deal” really is the end.

This obscenity disqualifies the US as the nominal leader of the free world. In conjunction with the instructions from the Trump administration to cease countering Russian cyber espionage earlier this year, it’s a rap sheet of pro-Russian actions.

There’s a very ugly precedent to this situation. The last time a country was divided by third parties like this, World War 2 happened a year later. The Munich Agreement in 1938 effectively guaranteed war when Hitler tried to isolate Poland in 1939.

The 28 points of this one-sided grovelling exercise didn’t even include Ukraine in the negotiations. There were no actual negotiations

There is absolutely nothing in it for Ukraine, now or in the future.

Nobody can speak for Ukraine better than Ukraine. I remember Zelensky’s talk to the Australian Parliament about rebuilding the dream when the war started.That dream must live.

The world doesn’t have to accept any such agreement.

The world has spoken with sanctions and arms for Ukraine. It has condemned all of Russia’s actions since 2014. The intolerable threat of nuclear war by Russia cannot be tolerated or forgiven. The insane aggression and crimes against humanity cannot go unpunished or unchallenged. 

This is the official situation:

The world recognizes only the 1991 borders of Ukraine, guaranteed by the US and Russia.

That’s it. That’s the whole story.

There are, however, other elements in play in this grotesque melodrama.

Ukraine doesn’t have to agree to anything at all, especially an “agreement” based on negotiations upon which it wasn’t even consulted.

The world doesn’t have to recognize any such agreement.

Ukraine could repudiate the rare earths agreement. The world will buy from Ukraine.

Aid from Europe and most of the rest of the world will continue.

If this is the only way Russia can even pretend to “win” this war, they must be desperate. Claims of success are always hollow.

The Russian military has disgraced its heritage and the Russian people. In 1812 and 1941, they were just defenders of their homeland. Now they’re just criminals living off the enlistment bonuses of the dead

This isn’t the famous and ferocious Red Army. It’s a Russian doll. Each doll is smaller. It’s Afghanistan cubed. Domestically, it’s been a catastrophe.

They can’t even manage their own people. When Prigozhin marched on Moscow, the response was to put up crowd control barriers. Last year, they couldn’t even control a Ukrainian incursion into Russia at Kursk. The North Koreans have had no impact except disastrous losses to themselves.

From the American perspective, it’s a very different matter. The inevitable severe political backlash against Trump will require an unequivocal reset of foreign relations. Illegal conduct by officials acting on behalf of a foreign power may also be under scrutiny.

A recognizable America, not this whining beggar at the Kremlin’s gates, will have to return.

Ukraine will have to say no. That will have to be the end of this cretinous charade.

When the Russians invaded, my comment was that the past was invading the future.

The past will never beat the future.

Freedom, freiheit, svoboda, liberte, in any language, that’s the real victory.

Slava Ukraine!

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