President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has emphasised that the speed of war ending directly depends on Ukraine?s support by the international community.

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    1 year ago

    The military has been yelling “this is what failed deterrence looks like”. Appeasement only delays the outcome.

    And the top officials have gone through the ranks during the cold war. They understand this enemy as they trained for this scenario.

    Biden seems to be the same. Cold war politicians up against their mortal enemy.

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      While the WW2 comparisons are of course not perfect they’re still certainly interesting to make. Appeasement seems to have had very similar results. Both Germany and Japan also miscalculated when they thought the western powers would be willing to just sue for peace at certain points (Germany thought Britain would give up the fight and go for peace talks once France fell and Japan thought USA would if taking their occupied areas back would be costly enough).