No other president would bully Ukraine to surrender areas not already occupied by Russia

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7. nothing short of appeasement

...and people talk about comparisons to Yalta where the allies believed they needed Russia to help win the war against Japan, three weeks before Hitler surrendered.

But this is so much more the Munich Agreement with Chamberlain ceding territory to Hitler in the naive hope that a dictator determined to expand his territory would be satisfied with the chunk offered up to them - basically rewarding Hitler and solidifying his military gains.

In Trump's case, he's offering up land Russia hasn't conquered yet, in exchange for a 'security agreement that looks a lot like NATO.

Here's and idea for him. Instead of further acceding to Putin's phony pretext for invading that Ukraine was joining NATO, how about just letting Ukraine in, right now?

After all, Putin isn't directly attacking actual NATO-protected countries, he's attacking one that doesn't have that protection; demanding a lesser force; and for what, to undermine short of fully confronting the U.S.?

Why let him have that option, all for invading Ukraine?

It's insidiously enabling of Trump to even be considering any of this, all accommodated by this president withholding aid and refusing to retaliate when Putin broke the ceasefire; basically advantaging his appeasement strategy off of Putin's continued bombing of civilians.