Cristian Tudor Popescu, on Trump's plan for Ukraine: “The word peace has not had such a hideous meaning since Munich. The bloody barter from then is being repeated now”
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his American counterpart Donald Trump at the summit in Alaska. Photo: BOB STRONG / UPI / Profimedia
Trump simply breaks the backbone of the long-suffering Ukraine and rewards Putin for his quality as an international murderer, writes journalist Cristian Tudor Popescu, commenting on the “peace plan” developed by the US president and the ultimatum given to Ukraine to accept this agreement that includes many of Russia's demands for ending the war, including important territorial concessions. “Between Trump and Putin, who is more vile?” CTP asks.
“PURSUING PEACE. In search of peace. This is written on a blue background above Putin and Trump, who shake hands grinning. The word peace has not had such a hideous meaning since Munich 1939. The bloody barter from that time is now being repeated. In the role of Great Britain and France, the signatories of a peace agreement with Germany over the head of Czechoslovakia, allowing the occupation of the Sudetenland by Hitler's troops, Trump's America is playing today,” he says Cristian Tudor Popescu in a post, Friday evening, on his Facebook page.
“Like the Führer, Putin promises not to attack Ukraine again after taking control of the South-East of the country – Hitler quickly violated the agreement, occupying all of Czechoslovakia”, recalls the journalist.
“Peace. Trump is simply breaking the backbone of the long-suffering Ukraine. And he is rewarding Putin for his quality as an international murderer. Question: between Trump and Putin, who is more vile, more cynical, more disgusting? That's in case you don't answer: what do I care about Ukrainians? Let them be there!”, concludes Cristian Tudor Popescu.
In his post, the journalist refers to the Munich Agreement, through which Great Britain and France accepted Hitler's request to annex the Sudeten region from Czechoslovakia, in exchange for Germany's guarantees that it would not annex other territories. But the Agreement was signed on September 30, 1938, not 1939, as CT Popescu wrote.
The agreement was violated in March 1939, when Germany occupied the Czech Republic, although it had offered guarantees that it would make no further territorial claims against its neighbor.
Trump's ultimatum to Ukraine
US President Donald Trump said in an interview on Fox News Radio on Friday that next Thursday, when the United States celebrates Thanksgiving, is a “reasonable” deadline for Ukraine to accept his proposed peace plan to end the war with Russia.
His clarification came after the international press reported that the United States gave Zelenski an ultimatum until November 27, Thanksgiving Day, to accept the plan, otherwise he risks losing US support, that is, Washington will stop transfers of military equipment and information to Kiev.
Asked in the same interview about the proposed plan, which would involve ceding Ukrainian territories to Russia, Trump emphasized that Ukraine is “already losing territory” in this war anyway, which he described as a conflict “out of control, a massacre.”
The American president also wanted to mention that in this war the United States provided Ukraine with “the best military equipment in the world”.
As for the possibility that Russian President Vladimir Putin may decide to attack other European countries in the future, Trump expressed his belief that the Kremlin leader is “not looking for more trouble” and that he has learned the lesson of a war “that should have lasted one day, but has been going on for four years.”
