“A Disaster of the First Magnitude” by Françoise Thom —
Every nation has pages of infamy in its history that it remembers with shame. For France and Great Britain, it was, amongst others, the Munich Agreement of September 1938, which allowed Hitler to begin the dismemberment of Czechoslovakia, a prelude to the invasion of that country in March 1939. The French committed this fault out of weakness, the British out of blindness. The United States is now writing its own page of ignominy. At a time when Ukraine is subjected daily to deadly bombardments and Russian forces are trying to advance along the entire front, the US has suspended the delivery to Ukraine of air defense weapons and artillery ammunition already prepared in Poland for shipment—arms of vital importance to this beleaguered country, attacked day and night. This is the second time the US has openly aided Putin’s armed forces : the Russians “liberated” the Kursk region because the Americans stopped transmitting intelligence to the Ukrainian army during the Russian offensive.
