Trump’s Ukraine deal is worse than Chamberlain’s Munich Agreement

The Putin-Trump proposed peace deal for Ukraine is so horribly bad that it makes Neville Chamberlain’s Munich Agreement with Hitler look visionary.

I will put aside the merely terrible aspects such as Ukraine surrendering Donetsk, rewarding Russia with G8 membership to focus on the two most egregious.

The first is that Ukraine must reduce its armed forces to 600,000 personnel. You would think Ukraine invaded Russia, not vice-versa. This reduces the size of their military from 4.9 million to 600,000 – an 88% reduction. The effect of this is to not only make it much easier for Russia to conquer the rest of Ukraine in the future, but it diminishes the largest military buffer between Russia and the rest of Europe.

The second is that NATO promises never to take in more members. Not just never take in Ukraine, but also Armenia, Georgia, Moldova etc. So this allows Putin in a few years to invade these countries knowing they can never rely on NATO.

This is truly terrible. It is worse than Chamberlain’s Munich agreement in that it rewards Putin for his invasion of Ukraine by not just giving him more of Ukraine, but wearing Ukraine and NATO to make it easier for him to carry on in future.