Appeasement mentality brings not peace but war
Tyrants and extremists regard compromise as an incentive to redouble aggression
As the Ukraine crisis continues, one question in particular poses itself. How can it be that, having defeated the Soviet Union in the Cold War, the west is now unable to get the better of the leader of the bankrupt kleptocracy that replaced communism in Russia?
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