Mirror columnist Kevin Maguire says that in shamefully selling out Ukraine to his Russian invader ‘friend’, Putin puppet Donald Trump is the heir to Neville Chamberlain
The US President is an echo of the British Prime Minister who tried to appease Hitler with Sudetenland before the emboldened Nazi grabbed the whole of Czechoslovakia.
The moment is surely approaching when Keir Starmer and other European champions of democracy must abandon whispering flattery into the unhinged President’s ear and loudly say No to a Kremlin stooge in the White House.
Because Trump’s push for Ukraine to gift Putin unconquered as well as occupied territory, slash Kyiv’s armed forces, leaving it vulnerable to a Moscow fresh invasion, and to withdraw Nato support would be a surrender to Putin as shameful as Chamberlain’s to Hitler.
China is a challenge to Britain’s security; Trump the real threat when he’s in the pocket of Vlad the Invader and therefore an enemy within Nato.
And here in Britain the 10-year jail sentence for Reform traitor Nathan Gill, the party’s former leader in Wales and key member of Nigel Farage’s Ukip and Brexit Party groups in the European Parliament, underlined how Putin uses hard-right and far-right supporters to weaken the UK.
Gill took at least £30,000 to secretly promote Russia’s interests when he was an MEP. Long gone are the days when elements of the British Left were in the pay or in thrall to modern tsars.
Today it is the plastic patriots who are in bed with the authoritarian nationalists, draping themselves in the Union Jack while knowingly or unwittingly doing dirty work under Russia’s red- white-and-blue-striped flag.
Brexit was a Kremlin key goal, weakening both Britain and the European Union. Farage is unable to escape his past praise for Putin.
His senior lieutenants were feted by Russia’s London ambassador. Reform figures questioning British military aid to Ukraine is also telling.
Slashing foreign aid, a Reform flagship programme, would risk delivering countries into Putin’s arms. No wonder it is described as a “grave error” by none other than Richard Dannatt, former head of the British Army.
Trump and his British chumps endanger freedom everywhere. Everybody needs to call them out for what they really are – starting with the Prime Minister.