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Appeasement, in an international context, is a diplomatic negotiation policy of making political, material, or territorial concessions to an aggressive power with intention to avoid conflict. [1]
In the United States and the United Kingdom, the words "Munich" and "appeasement" are frequently invoked when demanding forthright, often military, action to resolve an international crisis and characterising a political opponent who condemns negotiation as weakness. [4]
Someday, historians will study us and our actions: Could we have prevented certain events, which decisions were fatal, and which turned the tide of the war and brought a just peace closer?
Bread and circuses" (or "bread and games"; from Latin: panem et circenses) is a metonymic phrase referring to superficial appeasement. It is attributed to Juvenal ( Satires , Satire X), a Roman poet active in the late first and early second century AD, and is used commonly in cultural, particularly political, contexts.
Foreign Secretary Lord Cameron warned against the “appeasement” of Vladimir Putin as he stepped up calls for the US to release billions of dollars of extra funding for Ukraine.
There is a term for this type of backstabbing an ally: appeasement. The West tried that strategy before World War II, and the results were catastrophic. Brian Howey is senior writer and columnist ...
Realpolitik (/ r eɪ ˈ ɑː l p ɒ l ɪ ˌ t iː k / ray-AHL-po-lih-teek German: [ʁeˈaːlpoliˌtiːk] ⓘ; from German real 'realistic, practical, actual' and Politik 'politics') is the approach of conducting diplomatic or political policies based primarily on considerations of given circumstances and factors, rather than strictly following ideological, moral, or ethical premises.
Appeasement is a strategy to achieve peace by making political, material, or territorial concessions to an aggressive power. [37] Deterrence is a strategy to achieve peace by using threats or limited force to dissuade an actor from escalating conflict, [ 38 ] typically because the prospective attacker believes that the probability of success is ...