Who said ‘History repeats itself’? – Give that man top prize.

Update: 16th August 2025
As is usual with Mr. Trump, lot’s of gas, but nothing gained.
Mr. Trump is consistently big on promises, but pathetically little on delivering them.
As my Pa used to say: ‘His promises are like pie-crust, easily broken.’
I guess that makes him ‘The Pie-crust President’.

The following link leads to a short observation by Anthony Zurcher, he says it all for me.
So much hot air

Later today, Ivo Daalder, former US NATO representative has said ‘No one in Europe today trusts Donald Trump’s US to defend them if they were attacked, and no-one in Ukraine is going to believe that unless and until they are the member of the one organisation that exists explicitly for that purpose.’ (Credit BBC News)

My suspicions regarding ‘Deal-maker Donald’, are that he and Putin are quite happy to carve up the world between them. His gloating tweets about all of the lovely NATO cheques crediting the US, from Europe for arms to help Ukraine are sick-making. Neither he, nor Putin want Ukraine in NATO, Donald because it’s a good deal better (more money for US) than supporting a Ukraine in NATO, and Putin ‘Vlad the Cad’, because he’s a fascist dictator, not unlike Hitler.

Here’s what Vitaly Shevchenko (BBC Anchorage) has to say: Putin is a happy man

In 1938 at Munich, Chamberlain got an international agreement that Hitler should have the Sudetenland in exchange for Germany making no further demands for land in Europe.
Chamberlain said it was ‘Peace for our time’.
Hitler said he had ‘No more territorial demands to make in Europe.’
On 1 October German troops occupied the Sudetenland:
Hitler had got what he wanted without firing a shot. What came after was truly dreadful. Millions died.

Quote from BBC News:
Trump had signalled that Ukraine might have to cede territory in order to end the war, which began with Russia’s full-scale invasion of its neighbour in February 2022.

Trump said at the White House on Friday:
“You’re looking at territory that’s been fought over for three and a half years, a lot of Russians have died. A lot of Ukrainians have died.”

“It’s very complicated. We’re going to get some back, we’re going to get some switched.
There will be some swapping of territories, to the betterment of both.”

The US president did not provide further details of what that proposal would look like.

Well Donald, it may seem complicated to you, but other’s, particularly in Europe, will see the stark reality of you rewarding Putin for his illegal acts of land grab, and the wanton slaughter of Ukrainian citizens.

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