Tragedy Then Farce: The Second Munich Betrayal

Tragedy Then Farce: The Second Munich Betrayal

President Volodymyr Zelensky, Munich, February 2025. Photo: Tom MutchMunich, Germany, February 2025“You are lucky your country’s so far away from Russia,” Volodymyr Zelensky smiled as he looked me in the eye across the small wooden table in a musty room of the Bayerischer Hof Hotel, and the room erupted into laughter. I’d introduced myself as being from New Zealand, and he’d interjected halfway through my question with a line that had brought th…