this post was submitted on 18 Jul 2023
99 points (100.0% liked)
196
16228 readers
24 users here now
Be sure to follow the rule before you head out.
Rule: You must post before you leave.
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
It was a whole bunch of that.
Remilitarization of the Rhineland.
Anschluß of Austria.
The Sudetenland.
The actual invasion of Czechoslovakia.
Nazi Germany really pulled "whatcha gonna do about this, bitch?" and got away with it for a surprisingly long time.
Appeasement doesn't work. It did not work out for European powers, it did not work for Stalin, and more recently it did not work with Crimea/Ukraine.
Yet every time a portion of the population will wholeheartedly support appeasement policies out of what I can only assume to be a mix of abhorrent cowardice and a pathological compulsion to submit to authority. I can only imagine the kind of fucked-up childhood these people lived, to make them so afraid of fighting back even when they're the ones holding the bigger stick.