With just one phone call to the Kremlin, Donald Trump has single-handedly brought World War Three one step closer.
Unfortunately for Trump — and, indeed, the rest of the free world — he is closer to Neville Chamberlain, the British PM who proudly proclaimed in 1938 that he had secured “peace for our time” after he agreed a deal with Hitler to allow Germany to annex the Sudetenland, in a bid to avert a second world war.
Instead of standing up to President Putin, a murderous authoritarian dictator who invaded Ukraine, a sovereign nation state and a democratic ally of the West, Trump has instead offered the hand of friendship to the Kremlin and demanded peace at almost any price.
This week he vowed to end the conflict in Ukraine, starting negotiations with Vladimir Putin to bring to a halt the three long years of bloody carnage on Ukraine’s battlefields since Russia’s invasion.
The US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced there was no realistic chance that Ukraine could regain all of the territory stolen by Russia since 2014, and no hope that Ukraine could join Nato to secure its remaining borders.
