Chuck Darwin<p>Former U.S. national security adviser <a href="https://c.im/tags/Susan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Susan</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Rice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rice</span></a> delivered a damning critique Thursday of Donald Trump and his foreign policy agenda for aiming to appease Russian President Vladimir Putin during the ongoing invasion of Ukraine.</p><p>“The fundamentals of national security — that America needs to be strong, that we need to stand with our allies, we need to stand for our values, we have to mean what we say … never used to be under serious question,” she told MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell</p><p>“And along comes Donald <a href="https://c.im/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>, who really is like the <a href="https://c.im/tags/Neville" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Neville</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Chamberlain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Chamberlain</span></a> of the Republican Party,” Rice continued. “He’s an appeaser. He’s a surrender monkey. And that’s what we’re seeing in his approach to Ukraine.”</p><p>Chamberlain exercised a policy of “appeasement” during his tenure as British prime minister in the years leading up to World War II, in a failed attempt to prevent Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler from expanding German control of Europe and waging war on the United Kingdom.</p><p>Trump has long been accused of having a "curious" relationship with Putin and recently refused to endorse a Ukrainian victory over Russia.</p><p>“We’ve seen him fold to blandishments from <a href="https://c.im/tags/Xi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Xi</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Jinping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jinping</span></a> and many others when it was convenient for him and served his personal interests,” Rice told O’Donnell, <br>referring to the many instances in which Trump has praised the Chinese president from the White House.</p><p>“So that is why more than 700 Democrats, Republicans and Independents<br> — very senior national security leaders <br>— came together to oppose Donald Trump and support [Vice President] Kamala Harris,” she continued, </p><p>referring to an open letter published last month.</p><p>The document was signed by current and former defense officials, including former defense secretaries <a href="https://c.im/tags/Chuck" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Chuck</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Hagel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hagel</span></a> and <a href="https://c.im/tags/William" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>William</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Cohen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cohen</span></a> <br>— Republicans who served respectively under Democratic former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton <br>— as well as ex-CIA director <a href="https://c.im/tags/Michael" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Michael</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Hayden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hayden</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/susan-rice-calls-trump-a-surrender-monkey-for-appeasing-putin-with-approach-to-ukraine_n_670179aee4b0f85b87eefa12" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">huffpost.com/entry/susan-rice-</span><span class="invisible">calls-trump-a-surrender-monkey-for-appeasing-putin-with-approach-to-ukraine_n_670179aee4b0f85b87eefa12</span></a></p>