Trump must not make deal with ‘Hitler’ Putin – trusting two-faced tyrant could spark World War 3, says US ex-general
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DONALD Trump must avoid signing a deal with tyrant Vladimir Putin like the one that sparked WW2 - or face another global war, a former US General has warned. Trump has vowed to end the Ukraine war within days of getting back into office - but that will likely see Putin keeping the Ukrainian territory his cannon-fodder troops now control.
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Ben Hodges, the former commander of the US Army Europe, told The Sun that such a move could just see Putin come back stronger in two years and invade Ukraine yet again. But this time, it could see a reckless Putin launch missile strikes and cyber attacks against Nato territory to take out transport links that would have helped reinforce Ukraine’s defences.
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General Hodges warned that this would see the conflict spiral into another global war, with Nato forces forced to defend their territory against Putin. Former British diplomat Tim Willasey-Wilsey drew comparisons between Trump’s upcoming peace negotiations with Putin with that of Neville Chamberlain and Adolf Hitler in 1938 in his RUSI report.
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Willasey-Wilsey, a senior fellow at the think tank RUSI, told The Sun how they signed an agreement in Munich in September 1938 but six months later Hitler broke it. And another six months later the Second World War began. Willasey-Wilsey and General Hodges both pointed to how the same could happen in 2025 - if Putin is allowed to get away with keeping territory in a negotiated peace deal.
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