The generation that defeated fascism is gone, which means that it's our turn. But Russia is a nuclear power.
For the last 700 years, Russia has nearly always been an authoritarian state. That is their normal. Putin, the current dictator, now talks about rebuilding the Czarist Russian Empire, an unfortunate ambition in the 21st century. And he's killing Ukrainian civilians by the thousands. About 250,000 Russians have fled their country, sickened by the brutality.
Putin has made it clear that he loathes Europe and America.
On television one deep thinker says that our best choice is to appease Putin. But doesn't history tell us that appeasing fascists makes them more ambitious?
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