Agenda Links Contact me. From Munich to Munich β Send to a friend. One cannot avoid comparing it with the Munich conference, held on 29 and 30 September , at the end of which, believing they were avoiding war, the United Kingdom and France, deceived by Hitler's lies, offered him the territory of the Sudetenland, renounced defending an ally, and left the field open to Nazi expansionism, which heralded the Second World War.
In defiance of his commitments, within six months, the German dictator invaded the whole of Czechoslovakia, and the infernal mechanism of war was set in motion. For Hitler, it would be total, and, for the first time, civilians would be the prime targets, as is the case today in Ukraine. Putin has not ceased to lie shamelessly about his intentions and actions. He has dared to claim that he has nothing to do with Wagner, a private military company, which now claims allegiance to him, nor with the assassinations of opponents abroad, in which the courts have demonstrated his personal involvement.
After having guaranteed that he would not invade his neighbour, he did so unashamedly, after having invented the most spurious pretexts, which has just been officially confirmed by his then spin doctor, the famous "Kremlin wizard", Vladislav Surkov etc, etc. Each of his declarations, reread with hindsight, demonstrates a level of deception and lies that are quickly disproved by the facts.
We are therefore dealing with the same type of paranoid dictator, drunk with his supposed power, whom nothing can stop except force. The real difference lies in what the allies showed in in Munich.
First, there has been unwavering unity in the analysis of the situation and in the will to stop these criminal activities. The "autocratic challenge" now has been singled out as it tries to gain traction across the world. It concerns other states, whose leaders wish to remain in power by distancing themselves from democracies.
