Another Munich, Another war with Russia?
Today, US senators Lindsey Graham (R), Sheldon White (D), Jeanne Shaheen (D) and John Cornyn (R) met with the US puppet head of the Kiev junta, Volodymyr Zelensky, in Munich. Graham called for increasing the pressure on Russia and China, including the admission of Ukraine into NATO. "We should stop worrying about making Putin mad and make them scared," he said, adding "the same with China."
This frighteningly irresponsible bit of saber-rattling was in response to reports yesterday of a Trump-Putin phone call to discuss the possible terms of a peace deal.
I am honestly sickened by the response of people who have the nerve to call themselves antiwar, progressive, antifascist and yet condemn Trump's effort here and blame Russia - and Putin personally - for the current state of affairs which, objectively, has the world at the edge of nuclear war.
I suppose the intended, heavy-handed symbolism here is that "the meeting taking place in Munich should be a reminder of the dangers of appeasement" or some such ahistorical idiocy. The real similarity is the assemblage of Nazi warmongers in each case (including Chamberlain and the "radical-socialist" Daladier then, and Zelensky and Graham today). Both meetings lead ultimately to a war on Russia and the deaths of tens of millions of people.
