appeasement. This is the word many people in Britain and other students of history might know from the Second World War. Appeasement is the name given to Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's approach to avoid war with Nazi Germany, allowing Hitler to expand its territory unchecked while refusing to enter an armed conflict. And at the time, this made sense. But in 1936 German forces entered the demilitarised Rhineland. Two years later, the annexed Austria and in the Munich Agreement of 1938 other European powers agreed Germany could occupy parts of Czechoslovakia. Peace for our time, Chamberlain proclaimed coming home from the conference. But we all know how that turned out. Despite the jubilation at the time, for obvious reasons, no one wanted to see the horrors of the first World War. Repeated appeasement did nothing to stop Hitler's ambition, and in the end, just six months later from that agreement, Germany invaded Poland and Britain was at war, change the names, the dates and the players involved. And the situation, unfortunately, looks a lot like the conflict between Putin, Ukraine and potentially the rest of Europe today. Now, to be clear, I don't believe NATO should go to war with Russia. But I also very much doubt that doing nothing will deter him. That appeasement will stop him. And so, unfortunately, it seems that it does up to Ukraine to stop him.

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