A country doesn’t have to be defeated on the battlefield in order to lose a war. In November 1918, Germany capitulated with its army still largely intact and no enemy boots on its soil. In 1989-91, the Soviet Empire collapsed without a single shot being fired, and Russia effectively admitted that it lost the Cold War.
These two acts of surrender, though inevitable, later came to be regarded as betrayals in Weimar Germany and post-communist Russia.
Donald Trump’s visit to Europe in early July 2017 will also enter history books as a journey of American surrender, a humiliating defeat inflicted by a once-great nation upon itself when it was still a leading global economy and formidable military power....
https://www.kyivpost.com/article/opinion/op-ed/alexei-bayer-americas-surrender-summit.html
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