The Telegraph reporter Daniel Hannan, in his August 9 article “Trump Has Betrayed Ukraine, Making the World Immeasurably More Dangerous,” accurately perceives that if the Trump-Putin August 15 summit succeeds, it will “be a defeat for the values of the Anglosphere.” Baron Hannan is a long-time Conservative Party politician in the House of Lords.
Hannan opens: “This is a straightforward defeat. A defeat, not just for Ukraine, but for the values which the Anglosphere and its allies have upheld since 1941, to the immense benefit of the human race. Aggression is being rewarded. Borders are being changed by force. A brittle dictatorship has defeated a Western alliance with a combined economy forty times larger than its own. The prestige of the democracies is suffering a Suez-level hit.”
