Is Munich Peace Agreement the Best Precedent for U.S. to Support Ukraine? - (Episode #119, 28 Feb. 2023)

The United States is one step or miscalculation from a hot war in Europe. There a lot of reasons US Policy makers have used to provide military support to Ukraine, but by far, the most prominent is the Munich Peace Settlement of 1938. Largely viewed now as a disaster, in the Munich Peace Conference, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain made a peace deal with the devil himself, Adolf Hitler.  In exchange for an agreement not to invade other countries, France and Britain coerced Czechoslovakia to concede its Sudetenland territory to Germany. We all know what happened after that.  It's now criticized as naive, idealistic, and bolstering aggression.   It is now used as the primary precedent to arm Ukraine.  If they are not armed, and our defeated,  Russia will invade Europe and be on our doorsteps next. Is the situation now similarly similar to 1938?  Is it even relevant?  Or it a giant red herring?   In this episode, I explore that issue.