#we're treading into some really dark hours and its worrisome.

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Over the past few days I keep remembering an anecdote my mom would always say when talking about appeasement prior to WWII to which she would entertainingly tell to her students which went something along the lines of this

So Hitler, you want Austria? I suppose you can have Austria, but that's all you can take.

You want Czechoslovakia? I suppose you can have that I mean Czechoslovakia is too hard to spell anyway. But don't take anything else okay?

You want Belgium? Well, we can get our waffles somewhere else... But that's the last thing you can take*

And before long Hitler invades Poland which is shocking but alright and not long after Hitler was on their doorstep and had almost all of Europe which is baffling because how could that have happened?

*Belgium was not invaded prior to 1939 but my mom is aware of this and this is just an anecdote

Anyway, I have been thinking about this since the Ukraine situation is becoming more fucked up with Trump in office. And listen, Everyone thought maybe if they just let Putin take crimea he would leave everywhere else alone. And now look where we are. And now people are saying just let him take some of Ukraine and some are saying all of Ukraine.

Do you think dictators with clear ambitions of territorial expansion just stop when you say alright I'll let you have a little, but thats it?

This strategy doesn't end wars it prolongs them.

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