.The Putin appeasers are gaining ground per recent polls.. Let us call the right-wing media and their political leaders out with sharper messaging. Call them what they are: Putin appeasers, fools, and historical ignoramuses. For more on this subject, MUFTIC FORUM BLOG: Defacto appeasement: West's weak response to Russia's aggression in Georgia and Crimea greenlight Putin in Ukraine
Those who do not study history, are doomed to repeat it. Here is a lesson within my lifetime: In March 1938 Hitler completed joining Austria with Germany, Next on Hitler's list was Czechlovakia's Sudentenland and a few other smaller areas Chamberlain declared "peace in our time" as he made the deal with Hitler (he failed to read Mein Kampf) re: Czechoslovakia. Within a year, Hitler had completed his takeover or placed Nazi Hungarians in charge of all of Czechoslovakia and marched into Poland. World War II had begun.. Those who think Putin who has declared his intent to reassemble Russian influence in the USSR years over eastern Europe or that Chi in China is calculating US resolve to protect Taiwan from their publicly stated goals are kidding, do not be a fool or a historical ignoramus.
Tag them and brand them with that term. Isolate them within their own party, over 60% of whom still support the US role and reasons for it in Ukraine. It is still a bi-partisan-supported policy, and both Democratic and Republican leadership are on board with the continued support of Ukraine. Just waiving the democracy flag and showing sympathy for the death and destruction of Russia's invasion is not enough.The message is also " Appeasement has never worked because it signifies to the wannabe aggressors and territorial grabbers that we and our allies are weak and ripe for the pickings." Those appeasers are sailing on the ship of fools, and they are asking more to jump aboard. Some are answering their call. The message must be made sharper because there is an increasing part of those who are Republicans who are no longer supporting aid to Ukraine. This poll shows these shrill media and political right-wing American firster demagogic voices are influencing more of the ignorant and unthinking audiences.. It is time to reach these ignorant of history and simpleton thinkers with much sharper messaging. As retired 4 star Admiral James Savridis said 2/24 on Morning Joe said "you can draw a strait plumb line in the 1930's to World War" because of the isolationists. "We have seen this before a hundred years ago". Calling them out in uncertain branding terms as Putin appeasers, reminding them that if they claim the US is weak, just wait how weak we will look if Putin continues his push into his neighbors and we give him the green light to do so by flagging support of Ukraine and making it a false choice between aid to Ukraine and paying attention to China. The issues are connected in one respect. Reducing aid to Ukraine will not stop Putin's stated goal to reassemble the USSR's control over eastern Europe and will only embolden China to think they can get away with grabbing Taiwan because we appear to be too weak to stop Russia in Ukraine. Instead, we will have a much more expensive and dangerous two-front larger military threat. A stitch in time saves nine. It is not either China or Ukraine: it is both. We can now, and Biden is. Biden's strengthening alliances and military defenses in both Europe and in Asiam fear of Chinese expansionism are critical strategies in avoiding a much wider war later.
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