Madeleine Morris on Nostr: While those of us old enough to have been born in the shadow of WWII have an almost ...
While those of us old enough to have been born in the shadow of WWII have an almost instinctive disgust of appeasement, it is undoubtedly a diplomatic tool.
But it requires that the person you are appeasing has a demand that serves a purpose for the demander. The demander has a concrete reason for their demand, however obscene.
The mistake of appeasing Trump is to misunderstand his fundamental pathology. 1/ #Trumpappeasement
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