2 things on appeasement. Ukraine has fought the west has supplied. If Ukraine went to negotiate it wouldn’t be appeasement it would be self preservationFor whom is there peace through appeasement? You can’t grasp that Putin is brandishing a two-sided sword.
On one side is war and on the other is appeasement. You see the appeasement side as duller and less cutting than the war side.
In actuality, the only difference is that the appeasement side is slower in its cuts. Only one side has an end for Putin, the war side.
He can be defeated via war. Appeasement will never stop him.
He is a psychopath. He will never be satisfied, appeased. It’s his nature, as horrific as all of the psychopathic dictators before him.
Second thing because this term is thrown around like hitler. In this day and age of technology and advanced nuclear weaponry the lessons learned in the lead up to ww2 are no applicable. The environment is completely different. Yet we look to ww2 for lessons. This is going to lead to unintended consequences. Appeasement gave way to brinksmanship. That seems to be the actual lesson forgotten. I don’t think the world can handle any high level brinksmanship in this era for substantial periods of time.
The millennial and gen Zs I have no faith in to navigate through these conditions they never experienced. Weapons tests they never saw. Or the massive generational gap between Nagasaki and Hiroshima to today. I do not have faith in a gamer culture that kills virtually with impunity to keep the world going with this next level brinksmanship. From Iran and Israel to USA v Russia v North Korea v China at some point the damn will break. So you see it is necessary to make compromise and settle things through diplomacy. Appeasement is not applicable anymore. It’s another dug up phrase that people rely on to justify going heavy and blind into a global war.