Americans should worry that Munich 2.0 is looming.
2026 cannot become as infamous as 1938.
The dispatch of negotiators by President Donald Trump to Islamabad for the resumption of negotiations with the rump regime atop the Islamic Republic of Iran is a moment of danger for the world, the region, the people of Iran, Israel, the United States and, of course, for President Donald Trump.
There is no doubt that all of the above parties – except the Iranian regime and its allies – are in a much better position than they were on February 27 – on the eve of the battle with the Islamic Republic. The world will be safer if the military and defense industrial might of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is destroyed and its proxy force of terrorists – Hezbollah in Lebanon – is once again humiliated by the Israeli army. The leaders of the civilized world, whether they say it out loud or not, are relieved.
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But so too did the world relieve itself on November 12, 1918, the day after the Allies’ armistice with Kaiser’s Germany.
The First World War was over with the signing of that armistice. World War II became inevitable that same day because President Woodrow Wilson “lost the peace” in the aftermath of “the war to end all wars.”
Arguably the worst president of the last century, Wilson’s ego and academic approach to the world and its realities condemned the world to an encore war, a war that would prove to be far worse than the war concluded long ago on 11/11. President Wilson’s mantle was taken up by President Barack Obama. President Trump must reject the temptation of the mantle that covers disaster with the appearance of an agreement.
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The danger is that America (and by that I of course mean President Trump) accepts half or even three-quarters of a ‘deal’, instead of demanding the capitulation of the backward regime in Iran.
That bottom line is run by “hardliners” – just like the hardliners who murdered tens of thousands of their own in January and have since imprisoned thousands more, while executing hundreds. Hardliners then and now are counting on the “soft” West to concede whatever matters, to drive down gas prices and keep the oil flowing to fully power the global economy. These fanatics believe they can defeat President Trump. Doubtful, but possible.
President Trump is solely responsible for these negotiations. There is no Lloyd George, Clemenceau or any of the many other parties present at the Paris peace talks today. Full responsibility for whatever blame follows – this month, this year, this decade or even this century – lies with President Trump, just as the credit, if deserved, will too.
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The negotiations that ended in the disastrous ‘Peace of Versailles’ were a failure and there was no real peace at all. Long before Hitler arrived on the scene, Germany had already begun plans for rearmament. The Islamic Republic cannot emerge from the ruins, not for reform but for revenge.
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President Trump can agree on everything that doesn’t matter, but he can’t agree on the most important issues. The whole world knows what victory looks like. President Trump should settle for nothing less than Iran abandoning its enrichment forever, the return of the “nuclear dust” to American control, an end to ballistic missile production and support for terrorists, Iran’s “crazies,” as Secretary Marco Rubio bluntly described them this week. The basic human rights of the Iranian people must be restored.
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President Trump’s place in history depends on his resolve in this moment, as does – and much more importantly – freedom for the Iranian people and stability for the entire region. It is no exaggeration to say that the next few decades for the entire world depend on the president’s resolve this week and next.
We can’t have another Munich. A few days ago, President Trump stated the truth: Britain cannot afford another Neville Chamberlain. The United States cannot afford its first Chamberlain, or another President Obama.
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