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This may be the death of NATO...

according to at least one pundit and the UN could well go the route of the League of Nations.

Faced by threats to international peace from all sides—the Spanish civil war, Japan’s resumption of war against China (1937), and finally the appeasement of Hitler at Munich (1938)—the League collapsed. German claims on Danzig (see Gdask), where the League commissioner had been reduced to impotence, led to the outbreak of World War II. The last important act of the League came in Dec., 1939, when it expelled the USSR for its attack on Finland.

Go ahead and feel comfortable with appeasement if you wish, but it won't work any better now than it did in 1938. Given your country's history in the 20th century, I can understand your need for comforting intoxication of appeasement rather than the sober facing of reality. However, reality doesn't go away when the intoxication wears off. Normally, things are only worse the longer the situation is prolonged.

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