The Sweet Poison of Appeasement
Russia’s War and German Manoeuvring
Deutsche Fassung
Abstract
British foreign policy in the 1930s, which went down in history as “appeasement”, pursued the goal of stopping Hitler’s revisionist course. It led to disaster. Today, Russia is pursuing an aggressive and revisionist policy. Although no one explicitly professes a policy of appeasement, the manoeuvring of relevant circles in German politics on the question of whether Ukraine should be given full military support for its defensive struggle amounts to de facto appeasement. What is needed is a change of course: Germany should be prepared to counter the Russian aggressor through deterrence and defence.
(Osteuropa 11-12/2024, pp. 45–56)