Appeasement was popular with extremely stupid people in the 1930s so it's not surprising it is popular with extremely stupid people in the 2020s. Humans are, in general, ignorant and incapable of thinking about consequences, and so history is an endless litany of unnecessary horrors. The one thing we learn from history is that humans are too stupid to learn anything from history. I weep for Ukraine, but I also weep for those in the Baltic nations, Moldova, and wherever else Putin or his successor will send in Russian thugs and lowlife after the US Republican Party ensures he can turn Ukraine into one giant gulag. Every single person who votes Republican is now no better than the Germans who voted for Hitler's Nazi Party in the 1930s and thus enabled WWII to occur. WWIII is coming because of the mindlessness of every single Republican voter, but they are - of course - far too stupid to realize it and their children will die because of their abject idiocy.