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Cant identify the source but the defininition seems to fit one side of the current issue.
Traditionally, appeasement is regarded as a naive policy that gives democracies the appearance of weakness and encourages Fascist powers in their attempts to construct empires. Its failure in preventing World War II coloured the diplomacy of the immediate post-war period and the decline into Cold War, and continues to impact upon the foreign policies of western nations today.
The only thing I would add is a policy of appeasement should be considered even more dangerous when the war has already begun, which it has.
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