The Munich Model for Trump's National Security Extortion

[Nevilledog]

https://www.thebulwark.com/the-munich-model-for-trumps-national-security-extortion/

In the annals of successful political extortions, few rival the one that took place in Munich more than 80 years ago.

On September 29, 1938, two days before a deadline that Hitler had announced for invading Czechoslovakia, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain yielded and agreed to meet with the German chancellor. In the Bavarian capital, they signed a “nonaggression” pact that ceded the territory to Hitler without consulting the Czechs.

Hitler successfully bargained for something that wasn’t his (a piece of a neighboring nation) by agreeing to yield something that didn’t belong to him (the territory of other neighboring nations, which he agreed not to invade).

Eleven months later, Nazi Germany ignored the pact, invaded Poland and began the Second World War.

Former President Donald J. Trump is mimicking Munich by leveraging claims to things that aren’t his (America’s national secrets) against something which does not belong to him (the public order, which he threatens to overturn).

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[PCIntern]

1. Yes absolutely. And absitively.