Peace In Our Time?

After his "summit" meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Anchorage, Alaska, Donald Trump should be arrested for indecent northern exposure.

Yesterday's tête-à-tête between the two democratically elected dictators was supposed to produce an end to the war in Ukraine that would benefit Putin - I call it "the final solution to the Ukrainian question," because that's how Putin would see it - but, thankfully, produced nothing.  Call it the art of No Deal.

The lack of a deal means that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his people live to fight another day, and he has solid support from a coalition of pro-democracy allies led by Canada, the country that should have taken that mantle back in 1945.

Prior to this Trump-Putin meeting, everyone was comparing Trump to Neville Chamberlain, the British prime minister who sold out Czechoslovakia by letting Hitler take over the Sudetenland from the Czechoslovakian people in the hope of avoiding an unavoidable war.  That's an insult to Chamberlain.  Chamberlain actually accomplished something.  Trump accomplished nothing in Anchorage.  Because he can't do anything right.

He can't even appease right!