The foreign policy expert Roderich Kiesewetter (CDU) has reacted to the announcement by US President Donald Trump with sharp criticism, stating that he plans to negotiate with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin over Ukraine.
“‘Trump is leaving Ukraine behind,’ he told the online portal of ntv on Thursday. ‘Either a European coalition of the willing forms now or it’s the end of the post-war order in Europe and we fall back into the age of imperialism.'”
The deputy leader of the parliamentary control committee drew a direct comparison to the handling of the Hitler regime. “‘We saw in Munich in 1938 what happens when one rewards the aggressor,’ Kiesewetter said.
The Munich Agreement in 1938 had seen the state and government leaders of Germany, Italy, France and Great Britain agree that the Czechoslovakia would cede the Sudeten region to the German Reich. It took around six months for Hitler to break the agreement and invade Czechoslovakia.