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Zelenskyy Was Finally Told Some Hard Truths.
On the evening of 14 March 1939, Hitler summoned President Hácha of Czechoslovakia to the Reich Chancellery in Berlin to ‘negotiate peace’, but deliberately kept him waiting for hours while he watched a film. It was all a set up.
When he got done with his film, Hitler came into the room with his officials and had Hácha chased around a table with a pen — despite his heart condition — forcing him to sign a document that would allow the Germans to March into Prague.
It wouldn’t be long before the Czechoslovakia president collapsed, only to wake up to a telephone being shoved into his face for him to give the orders to his people to stand down and surrender.
If the Czech president had stood his ground that night, Hitler would have been forced to do a real invasion, breaking a treaty that would have sparked international backlash. Volodymyr Zelensky proved he is no Emil Hácha, despite Trump’s best efforts and JD Vance’s even lesser skill at cosplaying Göring or Ribbentrop.
Trump’s rise to presidency was in good measure due to his supposed supreme ‘deal making skills’. The culmination of the now infamous Zelenskyy meeting has gone…
