It's Monday,

Monday, January 10, 2022.

I'm Albert Mueller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events

from a Christian worldview.

If there is any moment in international relations in the 20th century with which no Western leader now wants ever to be associated,

that can be summarized in the one word Munich, that German

city where in September of 1938 an agreement was reached between Great Britain and

Nazi Germany that basically comes down to the word

appeasement.

Neville Chamberlain, the British Prime Minister seeking peace in our time, he said, believed

that he had come back from Munich with a piece of paper, the Munich Agreement,

again, September 1938, that guaranteed the peace and survival and security of Europe.

Of course, it was at the immoral price of sacrificing the

sedentenland and Czechoslovakia. But the reality is that now Munich simply means

the disaster morally and militarily, of appeasement.

Why are we talking about it on January the 10th of 2022?

It is because we are now facing what could be another Munich moment.

And what's really interesting is to see that even as diplomats from Russia and the

Western nations, including the United States, will be meeting today trying to avert, at least when it comes

to the Western allies, trying to avert a Russian invasion of Ukraine.

The reality is that Joe Biden is President of the United States and other Western

leaders understand that history will judge them if they are found to have sacrificed

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