There are echoes of the 1938 Munich Conference in President Trump’s handling of the Ukraine-Russia conflict, former CNU professor, Ph.D., writes in a guest column.

The Biden administration is reportedly seeking a peace deal in Ukraine that gives Russia control over certain territories, despite warnings from allies and critics that this would be appeasement

Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski of Poland said that Ukraine is too strong to be sold out by foreign powers. “The best guarantee for Ukraine is the almost million-man army, which is manning the foxholes and heroically resisting Russian aggression,” he said on CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS” in an interview that aired Sunday.

So how does this war end? Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth tipped the administration’s negotiating hand at the Munich Defense Conference in Germany. Ukraine will not join NATO. And there will be no territorial concessions. The White House tried to soften those comments and merely added to the confusion.

Whenever President Trump talks about Ukraine there is always something off, something missing, that makes you wonder what he is really up to — and his brief remarks on Ukraine to a joint session of Congress Tuesday night were no exception.

Echoing Putin’s talking points, the war against Ukraine no longer is an unjustified aggression but was, as Trump has now declared, Kyiv’s fault. Ukraine has become the ultimate test that the liberal international order failed to pass.

Chamberlain, the Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1937 to 1940, signed the Munich Agreement in 1938 allowing Nazi Germany to annex Czechoslovakia, which he predicted would guarantee “ peace for our time ” but which history has recalled as a failed attempt to appease German Fuhrer Adolf Hitler before the start of World War II.

New Zealand sacked its High Commissioner to the U.K. Phil Goff after he wondered aloud whether President Trump "really understands" the history leading up to the second world war.

Lessons from the 1938 Munich Agreement are fresh in the minds of Europeans. What happened nearly 90 years ago reverberate in the Ukraine battle against Russia aggression, says editor Ginnie Graham.

In 1938, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain proclaimed that he had secured “peace ... There are still dozens of Republicans in Congress who know that Trump’s Ukraine surrender initiative is a tragic error, but so far they are unwilling to ...

Do not repeat the mistake of British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, who traveled to ... States and Europe heeded his call — providing Ukraine with the support and assistance it needed ...