There's been some rather ironic, if not plain stupid, talk about appeasement recently with regard to Russia and the Ukraine.
The BBC reports:
[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cew40lqvel2o]
In Russia's 'blitz' of Ukraine, the question of appeasement is back
Gregory Meeks, a senior Democrat on the US House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, called Trump's strategy "weakness through appeasement".
Meanwhile, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk wrote on X that "appeasement never was a road to a just and lasting peace".
Quite right. Well done Meeks and Tusk - you hit the nail on the head.
This is exactly why no-one should have expected Putin to 'appease' NATO - an enemy alliance dedicated to combating Russia - when it tried to absorb Ukraine in order to deprive Russia of its Black Sea naval base and establish forward bases on the eastern border to facilitate a 'decapitation' strike on Moscow.
They are both right.
By appeasing NATO, Putin would have shown 'weakness' and taken Russia down a road that would never lead to a 'just and lasting peace' - for Russia.
But this seems to have escaped these numbskulls.
Either that or they knew Putin would never agree to appease NATO and merrily provoked a war that has killed far too many Russians and Ukrainians already.