The events that followed the appeasement of Germany in the 1930s were so horrific that appeasement has become an unequivocal pejorative — evoking an unholy combination of blind obliviousness and cowardly acquiescence.
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And diplomacy, no matter how successful, is denounced as appeasement.
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Neither appeasement nor military action against Iran will be productive.
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To further the parallel, the Swiss are carrying forward appeasement.
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"I feel it was yielding, it was appeasement," he said.
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" At one point, Mr. Trump even accused him of "appeasement.
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"Once again, history shows appeasement does not work," she said.
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She was accused of appeasement by a former British diplomat.
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Trying to give them a line of credit is appeasement.
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I would say that at times it verges on appeasement.
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But Ms Park is no longer in the mood for appeasement.
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Yet to critics of the administration, that sounds like further appeasement.
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"That was sort of a classic appeasement of Putin," Browder said.
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Secondly, history sometimes rhymes, and an appeasement strategy has often failed.
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This appeasement, though, will limit Trump's ability to grow the GOP.
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The BJP says it is opposed to appeasement of any community.
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There are echoes of the oblivious appeasement policies of the 1930s.
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Is the goal to create division or cohesion, disruption or appeasement?
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Ms. May was accused of appeasement by a former British diplomat.
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"Western countries have adopted a policy of appeasement," Mr. Hu said.
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MAZIE HIRONO, D-HAWAII: Some people are calling it the appeasement summit.
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History has taught us, however, that appeasement is the most inflammatory action.
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Inside the administration, he resisted negotiations with North Korea, deeming it appeasement.
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The question is whether the model of assimilation and appeasement is sustainable.
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"On North Korea threat, appeasement is finally off the table" https://t.
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Appeasement, inaction and incoherence are not badges of honor for a president.
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I'm old enough to remember when the Journal editorial page opposed appeasement!
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Such appeasement will only embolden Mr. Xi, further threatening Western democratic institutions.
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It is a huge contrast between the appeasement of Obama-Clinton policy.
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It might also be noted it is a form of preemptive appeasement.
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"The policies of the Obama administration were constant weakness and appeasement," he continued.
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The same could also be said of his second apparent effort at appeasement.
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It was an ongoing process of give and take, appeasement, sparring and negotiation.
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Hindu nationalists hailed the ruling as a blow to the "appeasement" of minorities.
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Trump has railed against what he sees as appeasement-seeking by President Moon.
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Some of these options include: Do nothing; appeasement; military intervention; and diplomatic action.
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The party denies any bias but says it opposes appeasement of any community.
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If history has taught us anything, it is that appeasement has deadly costs.
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"This appeasement policy of Nancy Pelosi is a tremendous mistake," Mr. Haywood said.
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"We saw how this shameful appeasement brought upon world war two," he says.
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Obama and his team attempted to combat threats through appeasement rather than action.
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"The age of appeasement must end," said Paola Masman, the group's media director.
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For example, trying to set up a parallel financial payment system is appeasement.
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The idea that Iran can be offered loans is also we believe appeasement.
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CNN: Your book highlights four approaches to diplomacy: appeasement, containment, détente and transformation.
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But when America&aposs weak they love policies of appeasement and they revered Obama.
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No amount of Russian or Iranian support— or Western appeasement —can alter this reality.
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The BJP denies bias against Muslims, but says it opposes appeasement of any community.
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But that situation is far likelier to force consensus than unilateral appeasement would do.
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Republicans quickly called the payment a ransom and an appeasement of a rogue state.
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Trump early Sunday knocked South Korea for its talk of "appeasement" with the North.
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The impeachment mob was on the move, and self-serving politics demanded its appeasement.
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The Iran nuclear-arms deal in 2015 was the apex of Obama's appeasement approach.
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For 20 months, the E3-following UK appeasement policy-has bowed to US diktat.
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Accusing Moon of "appeasement", President Trump is renegotiating a five-year old Korea-U.
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Since 003, US administrations have tried embargoes, they&aposve done sanctions, threats, treaties and appeasement.
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Part of the role inevitably involves appeasement, especially when nightlife spills over into residential areas.
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Still, there was fierce opposition in the House from Democrats who saw it as appeasement.
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The Iranian regime cannot be trusted, and appeasement was never a practical or realistic solution.
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The problem with any policy of appeasement is that it rarely appeases; it only emboldens.
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Now, contrast that disaster that utter appeasement to what Trump has done in the 18 months.
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That&aposs something terribly different than what Barack Obama was going with his approach towards appeasement.
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Obama and Clinton in effect gave nuclear weapons to North Korea by their policy of appeasement.
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The BJP denies the accusation and says it is opposed to the appeasement of any group.
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The BJP denies the allegation but says it is opposed to the appeasement of any group.
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For years, America pursued a fervent policy of appeasement, rewarding Tehran's malicious acts with more concessions.
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Is it possible the public and the Republican base are horrified by Trump's appeasement of Putin?
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Workers across America, uneasy about declining job opportunities and unimpressed by globalist appeasement, realize this too.
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The BJP denies the allegation but says it is opposed to the appeasement of any community.
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" Mr. Van Hollen called the Republicans' additional cuts to mandatory programs "a Tea Party appeasement plan.
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"(It) reminds me of the European appeasement of the 1930s," Netanyahu said in a video statement.
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For decades French presidents have alternated between neglect and appeasement for the suburbs and struggling towns.
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President Trump, who has dismissed engagement with North Korea as "appeasement," hasn't repudiated Mr. Pence's comments.
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"Appeasement," in this context, is typically understood to mean policies favoring the rights of Indian Muslims.
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This university administration needs to start standing for something other than appeasement, retreat, and milquetoast nonsense.
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They use tones and gestures to display appeasement and frustration as it navigates in crowds of people.
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Instead, Trump warned South Korea in a Twitter message Sunday that "talk of appeasement" would not work.
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The United States should counter Kim's cycle of "charm offensives" not through appeasement but through verifiable changes.
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Mr. Joko's tolerance if not appeasement of the military's growing public role has added to these fears.
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Some may be governed by people of appeasement who do not understand the depth of the threat.
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The RSS denies any prejudice against Muslims but says it is opposed to appeasement of any community.
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Bouverie makes clear that the appeasement policies of the 1930s were a spectacular failure, strategically and morally.
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Trump gets what Clinton doesn't: You don't win a trade war with appeasement or more free-trade agreements.
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They blame the Muslims, the West, the Congress government and its decades of socialism and appeasement of minorities.
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Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party denies any bias but says it is opposed to the appeasement of any community.
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"ASEAN is in a precarious position now with the concessions, accommodation and even appeasement with China," Thitinan said.
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In "Appeasement," Tim Bouverie notes that Rumbold's April 1933 dispatch caused a momentary stir in the Foreign Office.
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Churchill had political courage too, not least as one of the few to oppose the appeasement of Hitler.
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Mr. Trump has derided this approach, calling it "appeasement," but no mention was made of that on Thursday.
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But as German politicians should well know, appeasement of aggression rarely brings peace and security, quite the contrary.
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There needs to be greater recognition that this is a problem and that appeasement is not an option.
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Thomas Bach, the committee president, is the Neville Chamberlain of this story; his appeasement will have familiar consequences.
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But if history teaches anything, it teaches that simpleminded appeasement or wishful thinking about our adversaries is folly.
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The BJP denies any bias against Muslims though says it is opposed to the "appeasement" of any single community.
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But any appearance of retreat or appeasement in the face of revolutionary terror only stimulates and encourages further terror.
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Meanwhile Donald Trump, the US president, opened up a rift with South Korea, saying it risked "appeasement" of Pyongyang.
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Being in this situation was more a problem of trade policy appeasement through China's 15 years of WTO transition.
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To vanquish fascism in World War II, the United States overcame the political currents of xenophobia, isolationism, and appeasement.
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After all, Iran benefited significantly from the past 16 years of appeasement adopted by the past two U.S. administrations.
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His anti-appeasement speeches were erudite, rhetorically effective, witty and barbed, and reflected a deep understanding of European history.
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That has not been a priority for Trump, but claims of "appeasement" have a potent history in American politics.
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Although Britain's appeasement toward Germany began before Chamberlain became prime minister in 1937, he was its high priest throughout.
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Churchill was a political pariah, alienated from his own Conservative Party by his opposition to the appeasement of Hitler.
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" Cruz responded by pivoting to the Iran nuclear deal, saying, "under Barack Obama, the policy [regarding Iran] was appeasement.
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At least Neville Chamberlain pursued his appeasement policy because he earnestly thought it would protect his people in 1939.
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"Senate Republicans may look back on the appeasement of the Freedom Caucus as a poison pill," Mr. Sykes said.
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Kelly, McMasters and Mattis, or the establishment appeasement that Dan Coats presented that work best on the senior team.
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The Inca viewed eclipses as a sign that the sun god Inti was angry, and required appeasement with offerings.
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Chuck Schumer (D-NY) of "validating the worst appeasement of terrorism since Munich" for considering approving the Iran nuclear deal.
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Others railed against it as "appeasement" of politicians like Ms Warren, and a decisive step towards the death of capitalism.
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Old habits of appeasement die hard, so when the Cold War ended the Democrats continued their soft line toward Moscow.
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The United States has tried everything from playing Mr. Nice Guy with an appeasement policy to cutting off food aid.
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There are three obvious objections: First, why is the range of conceptual options so artificially restricted to war or appeasement?
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On Chinese state television, Trump's reflexive appeasement was seen as an unqualified victory for the Chinese government and business interests.
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Often support Kremlin's foreign policy objectives, such as stopping further sanctions under arguments related to appeasement or alleged business ties.
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They gained the power to tilt presidential elections toward Republicans and sway American foreign policy against appeasement with Mr. Castro.
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Capitalizing on the public mood, the Tory anti-appeasement rebels began an all-out effort to get rid of Chamberlain.
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Instead, Newcastle Manager Rafael Benítez opted for what could be described at best as containment, and at worst as appeasement.
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But the tolerance of a hateful ideology is not inclusiveness, but appeasement, and of that I will have no part.
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Negotiating with a regime that has blackmailed the U.S. and its neighbors for decades seems like a recipe for appeasement.
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Why would we, and by we I mean the world, risk another round of appeasement and failure from the left.
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If we had listened to the siren songs of appeasement and nuclear freezes then, we would have no deterrent now.
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Modi's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party denies any religious bias but says it is opposed to the appeasement of one community.
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And so everything that happens after the deal with Iran becomes the fruits of appeasement, including an incident like this.
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Republicans were still the party of Bush: hawkish neoconservatives who criticized Obama for weakness on terrorism and appeasement of dictators.
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The royal family has no desire to get involved in the most sensitive and divisive issue to consume Britain since appeasement.
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Faced with an existential threat, the Journal, instead of taking a hard look in the mirror, is calling for appeasement. Sad!
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Does this mean the new American administration will completely put aside the entire appeasement policy and stand alongside the Iranian people?
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Now it's vital that the United States set aside old policies of appeasement and injustice and stand with the Colombian people.
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This underlines the need for the West—and especially the U.S.—to review its policy of appeasement toward the Iranian regime.
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The Iranian totalitarian theocracy is behaving just as he predicted, reminding the world that appeasement is a futile and foolish strategy.
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They accused Ms. Banerjee of corruption and "appeasement" of the state's Muslims, who make up about a quarter of the population.
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By the late 1930s, out of office and despised for his opposition to appeasement, Churchill seemed finished once and for all.
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Mr. Trump has accused Mr. Moon's government of "appeasement," saying that "talking is not the answer" in dealing with North Korea.
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It may well be time for Mexico to change its practice of using appeasement to cushion the damage of historical grievances.
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In a strong display of leadership, the president has effectively put a stop to the Obama-era mantra of Iranian appeasement.
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"The president wants credit for moving away from an appeasement policy toward a more confrontational approach toward Iran," Mr. Keane said.
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She's a human empath, far too sensitive and well trained in the art of appeasement to feel fury toward her own parents.
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To Pelosi supporters, the idea that Democrats should ditch their longtime leader simply because she's routinely smeared by Republicans smacks of appeasement.
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"South Korea is finding, as I have told them, that their talk of appeasement with North Korea will not work," he tweeted.
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It intends to share profits with theaters (up to $20 of the $50 rental fee could go to them, presumably in appeasement).
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What Fritzsche adds to the familiar history of appeasement is a series of rich illustrations of the European fear of modern war.
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Western appeasement of the clerical fascist regime in Iran has contributed directly to the Syrian nightmare and to the creation of ISIS.
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The United States, which had its own appeasement movement at odds with Franklin Roosevelt, was a long way from entering the war.
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Still, Lt Gen Nayev urges the west to wake up to the threat from Russia and even draws comparisons with 1930s appeasement.
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The president also called North Korea a "rogue nation" and said talks of appeasement will not work, a reference to South Korea.
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Mr. Moradian said the new administration realized that the prior "appeasement policy" with Pakistan had not worked and needed to be reconsidered.
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"Justice to all, appeasement to none," said Sudhanshu Mittal, a Bharatiya Janata Party leader, in comments to NDTV, a cable news station.
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Hindu nationalists tied to Modi's party have long advocated a tough posture on Kashmir and say any policy of appeasement undermines India's security.
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Conservative Republicans, such as Reagan, Jack Kemp and William Buckley, accused him of appeasement, as did Democrats, including Henry Jackson and Jimmy Carter.
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There was an almost Chamberlain-level of appeasement through this period where the overriding narrative was simply to wait for China to converge.
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Third, consider the catastrophic results of appeasement so far: Emboldened by Washington's conciliatory attitude, Tehran has fanned the flames of multiple regional conflicts.
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That mindset, which has primarily been one of appeasement and inaction, has produced relatively little in terms of concrete, coherent, clearly defined policy.
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He likes to talk a big game, but when he's dealing with anyone he deems of importance, he's prone to appeasement and capitulation.
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In September, Trump accused Moon of seeking "appeasement" with North Korea following the successful completion of Pyongyang's sixth and most powerful nuclear test.
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" Cardin, citing Friedman's criticism of Schumer as having done the "worst appeasement of terrorists since Munich," retorted that those words were "beyond hurtful.
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Mr. Trump's undisguised swipe at the South for "appeasement" was certain to exacerbate fears that the United States might put it in danger.
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Thankfully, the current administration recognizes that this policy of appeasement has failed and is proactively working to reverse the policies of President Obama.
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Earlier this month, Trump suggested a diplomatic meeting with Iranian leaders without preconditions—a position he derided as appeasement during the Obama years.
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President Trump targeted South Korea just hours after North Korea's latest nuclear test, saying that "talk of appeasement" with Pyongyang will not work.
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Along the way he has accused South Korea's leaders of appeasement and talked about withdrawing from America's free trade agreement with that country.
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" Even after Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia and then Poland, some British officials were still advising, in the words of one, "a little more appeasement.
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This Bavarian city of beer halls and baroque beauty has another claim it would rather shake, one that made its name synonymous with appeasement.
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Earlier this month North Korea launched its biggest nuclear bomb test, prompting global condemnation as U.S. President Donald Trump said "appeasement" would not work.
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Hannity: The similarities between Reagan and Trump The stark difference between a strategy of peace through strength versus a strategy of bribery and appeasement.
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And it is in this morass of enablement, avoidance and appeasement that many male VCs learn there is no consequence to their harassing behavior.
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There&aposs nothing here that makes any sense except that they sold out the country, a massive appeasement mentality, and that they&aposre corrupt.
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Trump aides say Obama's efforts amounted to "appeasement" and have done nothing to advance political freedoms in Cuba, while benefiting the Cuban government financially.
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Neville Chamberlain's posture of appeasement has failed, forcing the British to seek a new leader who can put the country on a wartime footing.
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Over all, in its accounting of the global carnage, this book amounts to an ode in praise of deterrence and against appeasement and isolationism.
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Mr. Trump is expected to declare that the two-year-old Obama-era approach of engagement has amounted to a failed policy of appeasement.
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Despite these blatant abuses, the Iranian regime has been able to go largely unpunished due to the failed appeasement approach of the previous administration.
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Appeasement led to a failing nuclear deal with Iran, the rise of several radical Islamic terrorist groups, and a leadership gap in the region.
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But they are, in the end, a means of temporary political appeasement because the true, underlying problem—supply—is harder for Democrats to tackle.
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In that book, Mr. O'Brien warned against "appeasement and retreat" as he excoriated President Barack Obama for what he deemed a weak foreign policy.
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"To take a terrorist off the battlefield does not increase the risk of terror… the risk of terror is increased by appeasement," he added.
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In his dullness, Britain found a monarch to lead it through World War II. In Edward, it found one who favored appeasement and Nazism.
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"South Korea is finding, as I have told them, that their talk of appeasement with North Korea will not work, they only understand one thing!"
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But its appeasement of extreme religious groups such as Hefazat-e-Islam, which share much of the militants' worldview, is at odds with the crackdown.
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In a series of Tweets this morning, President Donald Trump said that North Korea has become a major threat, and that appeasement will not work.
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Philippine security analyst Renato De Castro said the information Duterte gave to Li was inaccurate, but consistent with his policy of "total appeasement" of China.
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The BJP denies these allegations but says it is opposed to appeasement of any community and has long advocated tough action to protect national security.
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"It will be very difficult to cope with this kind of challenge if Libya doesn't find a way to find a political appeasement," he said.
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This trend has grown harsher since the BJP took power in 2014, vowing to end "appeasement" of Indian Muslims and to get tough on Pakistan.
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"You don't win a Trade War with appeasement or more Free Trade agreements," DiMicco wrote in a July 10 blog post on his website, www.dandimicco.com.
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One can hardly argue against the fact that Iran enjoyed eight years of appeasement from the Obama administration, providing much needed financial relief for Tehran.
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Nuclear defeat looks like President Obama's nuclear deal with Iran, and eight years of appeasement of Iranian aggression against U.S. allies in the Middle East.
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Mr. Rubio and Mr. Cruz heatedly denounced what they described as appeasement of the Castro government, drawing applause from the pro-embargo local Republican audience.
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Rather than caving in to Trump's demands and offering appeasement, Germany, France, Britain and Italy — along with Canada and Japan — have stuck to their guns.
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Jean, unsurprisingly, says nothing about the circumstances surrounding the end of her father's ambassadorship — that his pleas for appeasement with Hitler had outlasted even Chamberlain's.
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When Cruz looks back on his strategy, he'll see that it was his appeasement of Donald Trump that ultimately proved to be his fatal flaw.
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Since the Iran-Iraq War, the West has pursued a failed policy of appeasement toward Iran in order to mitigate the threat from the regime.
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Concerning blackmail attempts specifically, he counseled confrontation, rather than appeasement — and it seems that Mr. Bezos followed the de Becker strategy with his blog post.
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"The Moon administration is already treading a fine line between engagement and what a large and vocal segment of the population regards as appeasement," said Green.
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During the referendum campaign, Michael Gove, a leading Leaver, accused the EU of "appeasement" regarding Turkey, where, he argued, "democratic development has been put into reverse".
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The Fed may do one rate cut here as an appeasement to the market and then maybe wait a little bit longer on the next move.
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In election campaigns, and particularly in its successful pitch to Uttar Pradesh's 220m people, the party has harped on its predecessors' supposed "appeasement" of minority groups.
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Sansa uses traditionally feminine traits of passive acceptance, appeasement, and tactics of mediation in order to stall her enemies, delay action, and divert attention from herself.
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Moon praised Putin throughout the visit, which came days after Trump criticized his "appeasement" of North Korea and threatened a potential trade war with South Korea.
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In recent months, Trump has taken a position of appeasement toward aggressive and illegal actions by Russia under Vladimir Putin to annex Crimea and destabilize Ukraine.
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His visit comes amid speculation over a growing rift between Seoul and Washington, after US President Donald Trump accused Moon of seeking "appeasement" with North Korea.
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Since then, however, Iran has demonstrated that the skepticism that President Trump has held of the appeasement policy of his predecessor was in fact entirely justified.
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Brazil's slavers had no intention of agreeing to such an unreasonable restriction, but appeasement accomplished the same thing as resistance, without the risk of open conflict.
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" Somewhat puzzlingly, Trump has also seemed to throw other countries under the bus this week, criticizing the diplomatic efforts of his ally South Korea as "appeasement.
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Most Democratic politicians railing against Mr. Trump's "appeasement" of Moscow hailed Obama's "reset" a few years ago and chastised Republicans for seeking a new Cold War.
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Regardless of how Trump expresses his positions, his fear-mongering about Muslims and "the other" amounts to a policy of appeasement toward terrorists, who crave notoriety.
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"The Japanese government is starting to feel that the appeasement tactics aren't really working," said Takuji Okubo, managing director and chief economist at Japan Macro Advisors.
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In a world grown dramatically more dangerous during President Obama's eight years of appeasement and retreat, America badly and urgently needs to restore its lost credibility.
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The recent op-ed by former Obama administration official Mark Feierstein underscores the moral failure of the previous administration and its misguided appeasement policy regarding Cuba.
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"Saturday's images of the Champs-Elysees threaten the early signs of appeasement that national debate seemed to have created," Bernard Sananes of polling institute Elabe said.
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Particularly baffling is the attitude of the major American internet firms, the victims of China's internet trade policy, whose strategy has largely been one of appeasement.
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It is expected to be a divided summit with little prospect of any appeasement that would soothe market fears of a tit-for-tat trade war.
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Chamberlain's failed policy of appeasement has dominated his legacy in the years since his death, but he was by no means alone in accepting Nazi Germany's demands.
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National Security Advisor Michael Flynn's promise of swift action should violations continue has turned the Obama administration's era of appeasement on its head, at least in spirit.
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"South Korea is finding, as I have told them, that their talk of appeasement with North Korea will not work, they only understand one thing!" he wrote.
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"South Korea is finding, as I have told them, that their talk of appeasement with North Korea will not work, they only understand one thing!" he tweeted.
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"It's clear that even these 2202 Democrats acknowledge their party's Iran appeasement stance is wildly out of step with the views of the American public," she added.
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" Others in the "China lobby" like Douglas MacArthur would keep up the drum beat against Acheson by decrying those "who advocate appeasement and defeatism in the Pacific.
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Coexistence is neither decoupling nor appeasement; it requires, above all, deterrence and candor—a constant reckoning with what kind of change America will, and will not, accept.
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Yet many foreign policy establishment Democrats and Republicans, who previously insisted a nuclear-armed North Korea is unacceptable, are now arguing for accommodation (really appeasement and surrender).
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Appeasement is a policy that only increases these threats — but it is their policy nonetheless, and we must work with them independent of this difference in approach.
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But for you to use the murder and holocaust of slavery for your own self aggrandizement is at the core of your vile appeasement of white supremacists.
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For Ukraine's conservatives, the indifference shown by Western powers to Russia's spiraling aggression is reminiscent of the pre-World War Two policy of appeasement employed against Nazi Germany.
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His aides contend that Obama's easing of U.S. restrictions amounted to "appeasement" and has done nothing to advance political freedoms in Cuba, while benefiting the Cuban government financially.
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David Webb, a respected activist investor, called Cathay's concessions "the most appalling kowtow to Peking" and said that its "shameful appeasement" had done great damage to its brand.
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"APPEASEMENT" Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned the EU's response on Monday, saying it recalled failed diplomacy with Nazi Germany in the run-up to World War Two.
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India's BJP has long campaigned for abrogating Kashmir's special privileges in the constitution, which it sees as an appeasement to Muslims and a hindrance to its own development.
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India's BJP has long campaigned for abrogating Kashmir's special privileges in the constitution, which it sees as an appeasement to Muslims and a hindrance to its own development.
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Against them both on the issue of "appeasement" has stood the Congress "strong man", the Home Minister, Sardar Patel, whose sympathies with militant Hindu communalism have been notorious.
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The BJP has long campaigned for abrogating Kashmir's special privileges in the constitution, which it sees as an appeasement to Muslims and a hindrance to its own development.
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However, if Trump invokes the Insurrection Act, military activities at the border that were questionably legal before would be legal, relieving DOD of its continued explanatory appeasement efforts.
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While renewed conflict never broke out, nuclear weapons development soared in North Korea and it became more aggressive, due to the feckless nature of this "appeasement" foreign policy.
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Books ___ Once accused of "appeasement" by President Trump, President Moon Jae-in's persistence in bringing together North Korea and the United States suddenly appears to be paying off.
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Had Barack Obama behaved similarly (as he mostly did during the Crimean and Donbass crises), conservatives would have been in full throat, decrying weakness, appeasement and American retreat.
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That's because any compromise with Trump is a form of appeasement to many of these grassroots organizers and they are willing to work to make those Democrats pay.
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And given that Facebook is the subject of at least four ongoing federal investigations, it wouldn't be surprising if the company developed this policy with appeasement in mind.
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"The Mullahs deeply regret and are terrified of the possible change in North Korea because this experience no longer justifies the continued appeasement of the Iranian regime," she says.
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" Often critical of Trump, Flake declined to address his comment about South Korea's "talk of appeasement," but said: "I think South Korea will be with us whatever we decide.
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Well, the best guess is that it's an appeasement attempt, after the Bureau declined to disclose details about the hack used to get data off the San Bernandino iPhone.
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Compare all of the above actions to Obama's milquetoast policy on Russia and outright appeasement on issues such as the "red line" that Russia blew right past in Syria.
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The Roots Unfortunately, the appeasement policy pursued by the West vis-à-vis Iran has been the main contributor to the Syrian nightmare and the rise of Daesh (ISIS).
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Beeching achieved an infamy unique for a civil servant normally reserved for top politicians such as Anthony Eden (Suez), Neville Chamberlain (appeasement) or Thomas Cromwell (dissolution of the monasteries).
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Yet even if brown-nosing seems to pay off, the Vatican's appeasement of the Chinese government would have great downsides, for itself and for the rest of the world.
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In defense of his betrayal of a fellow democracy, Chamberlain, like later defenders of appeasement, argued that Britain was not ready to fight a major war at the time.
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As he pressures North Korea to curb its nuclear program, he has belittled South Korea for "appeasement" and threatened to tear up its trade deal with the United States.
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That's why, without some carrots and sticks, stakeholder capitalism will always be at risk of being a fad, an appeasement, as opposed to the deeper transformation it might become.
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In the process he sketched out the back story of his colony's policy of protectionist Savior appeasement, which was inspired by heavy losses sustained during a more expansionist era.
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"South Korea is finding, as I have told them, that their talk of appeasement with North Korea will not work, they only understand one thing," Trump tweeted on Sunday.
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The highly flawed and unjustified appeasement policy vis-à-vis Iran was literally enriched by the Obama administration, allowing senior IRGC commanders describe the U.S. as a "paper tiger".
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After years of appeasement-style diplomacy have yielded only more body bags by an emboldened Assad, grounding Assad's air force is the last option left to stop the slaughter.
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Suggesting that sex workers be offered up as a form of appeasement merely enables that sense of entitlement rather than identifying it as the true source of the problem.
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MUNICH – There are few better places in the world than here to reflect on the need to end Western appeasement of Vladimir Putin and his growing list of international crimes.
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Modi's ruling party had long sought an end to Kashmir's special status, seeing it as appeasement of minorities and a barrier to its integration with the rest of the country.
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Team Obama hotly rejects the idea that the way to get along is to let China do what it wants in sensitive areas, trading Chinese good behaviour for American appeasement.
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As the pro-appeasement drive to portray the Iranian regime as moderate has failed miserably, Iran represents the most important stage where a new pro-human rights initiative must launch.
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As is often the case in Washington, policy-makers see relations with Russia through the prism of the origins of World War II, the belief that appeasement led to catastrophe.
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Congress should dismiss any call for appeasement vis-à-vis Iran and continue pursuing and holding firm its sanctions against the mullahs', especially those punishing Tehran's atrocious human rights violations.
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This trend has grown harsher since the Bharatiya Janata Party took power in New Delhi in 2014, vowing to end "appeasement" of Indian Muslims and to get tough on Pakistan.
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Reflecting on Fillmore's feuds with members of his own party, his hubris around Southern-appeasement, and his nativist political orientation, it's hard not to see his ghost in Trump's presidency.
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Eight years of appeasement policy under the Obama administration has placed Iran facing a serious miscalculation, thinking there is still room for its policy of threats and export of terrorism.
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Louie Steven Witt came forward and testified in Washington in 1978, explaining that his umbrella was meant to protest the Nazi-appeasement policies of Joseph P. Kennedy, the president's father.
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Bouverie, a former British television journalist, offers few fresh details or insights into Britain's disastrous appeasement policy — a subject that has been exhaustively mined in a plethora of previous books.
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By pursuing a strategy of containment, rather than the last administration's strategy of appeasement, President Trump has opened a window of opportunity with Iran that is playing out even now.
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He has turned the country's decision to leave the European Union into a cultural debate, where being for Europe means supporting Neville Chamberlain and his appeasement efforts with Nazi Germany.
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Is a more aggressive U.S. approach to human rights likely to produce swift results where past policies of turning a blind eye and appeasement of repressive African regimes have failed?
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"Duterte has faced massive backlash over his appeasement-sounding remarks over Benham Rise and Scarborough Shoal, so he has an incentive to make some symbolic muscle flexing," Mr. Heydarian said.
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His Hindu nationalist-led party has long campaigned for abrogating Kashmir's special privileges in the constitution, which it sees as an appeasement to Muslims and a hindrance to its own development.
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Churchill went into the political wilderness between the two World Wars and during that time was a key voice criticizing then-Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's policy of appeasement toward Adolf Hitler.
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America's withdrawal from the Middle East and appeasement of dictators in Moscow and Tehran in the past several years has led to terror and chaos that now threatens us at home.
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To local activists, the national group is a hidebound practitioner of the "appeasement or olive-branch theory of governance" that keeps gun owners from claiming the full liberties owed to them.
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Congress should dismiss any call for appeasement in relation to Iran, and continue pursuing and holding firm its sanctions against those in leadership who are behind the atrocious human rights violations.
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"South Korea is finding, as I have told them, that their talk of appeasement with North Korea will not work, they only understand one thing!" the president tweeted on September 3.
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In September, Trump tweeted "South Korea is finding, as I have told them, that their talk of appeasement with North Korea will not work, they only understand one thing!" he wrote.
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Why it matters: Per the Journal's Christopher Mims, "Scooter companies' appeasement of regulators embodies tech's broader move toward accountability, following a period of public outrage over the industry's overreach and mistakes."
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Biden's missteps present a troubling pattern of sacrificing the interests of the very constituencies that stand to lose the most if the 2020 battle is undercut by the politics of appeasement.
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" Ms. Haley did not threaten unilateral military action by Washington or repeat the president's statement on Twitter that South Korea's effort to engage the North directly was a form of "appeasement.
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This promising anti-missile program was canceled by the Clinton Administration in favor of President Clinton's Agreed Framework and its policy of appeasement, which ultimately resulted in today's North Korean ICBMs.
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These were facts that former President Obama knew when he deliberately chose a policy of appeasement and cash payoffs instead of strength and accountability as the way to deal with Iran.
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North Korea's biggest nuclear test to date was condemned around the world on Sunday, with several leaders calling for new sanctions and U.S. President Donald Trump saying "appeasement" would not work.
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Only then will we be able to adopt a sound counter Iranian policy rather being stuck with the current disjointed appeasement-like policy we inherited at the start of the year.
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The nuclear bargaining chip is a powerful one, especially when dealing with governments based in appeasement or political apathy as we have seen in relation to other issues such as Venezuela.
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But they can create more options beyond appeasement of a rogue regime and full scale conventional war that could defend against the unconventional threat of an EMP or other nuclear attack.
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"South Korea is finding, as I have told them, that their talk of appeasement with North Korea will not work, they (North Korea) only understand one thing!" he said on Twitter.
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"These necessary actions constitute an important break with the appeasement of previous administrations, and provide an opportunity to chart a new course for America's relationship with this strategic competitor," Rubio wrote.
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Trump had previously criticized Moon over his support for diplomatic engagement with Pyongyang – something the U.S. president once called "appeasement" – but both leaders used Tuesday's news conference to stress common ground.
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While no one predicts a return to the horrific slaughter and appeasement of that dark chapter from history, some of the hallmarks of the intolerance that were its precursor can be seen.
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Leibovich seems largely immune to the challenges around access and appeasement that many sports journalists face; he pursues his leads with the freedom of someone who's embedding in the N.F.L. only temporarily.
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The precision-guided invectives hurled at Representative Elijah Cummings, "the Squad," and civil rights leader the Reverend Al Sharpton represent an escalation that Trump's eventual general election challenger cannot meet with appeasement.
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Pointing to other instances of so-called "panda diplomacy," both the far-left Unity party and the far-right Danish People's Party criticized the new enclosure as a symbol of political appeasement.
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Coercive diplomacy and sanctions have been effective in reducing threats posed by Pyongyang and Iran; but regime change from within constitutes a third path between military confrontation and appeasement only in Iran.
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Bouverie's chronological narrative conveys how appeasement transformed over the years: from a reactive, fearful policy to an enthusiastic, idealistic project to what can only be deemed a strenuous exercise in willful denial.
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However, under President Trump, any hostile or aggressive action by Putin&aposs regime will be and should be met with strength, not appeasement, not bribery, not cash, not kissing the rings of dictators.
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Charles Schumer, after Democratic colleagues voted to approve the Iran nuclear deal, that "Schumer is validating the worst appeasement of terrorism since Munich," where Palestinian terrorists killed Israeli athletes at the Olympic Games.
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Appeasement never works Giving way to Bennett has only emboldened him, and he now thinks he can dictate the terms of the relationship between an Israeli prime minister and the new US president.
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The entirety of the Trump administration has correctly, publicly and consistently pivoted away from President Obama's policies of squeamish discomfort with the internal hunger for change and wholesale look-the-other-way-appeasement.
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And let's not underestimate the political psychopathology of appeasement: People grow weary of the prospect of endless conflict with an implacable enemy and want to believe in solutions even if there are none.
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Astoundingly, President Donald Trump's first reaction to the nuclear test was to lambast South Korea's president, Moon Jae-in, for seeking to talk to North Korea, accusing his government on Twitter of "appeasement".
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LONDON (Reuters) - North Korea's biggest nuclear test to date was condemned around the world on Sunday, with several leaders calling for new sanctions and U.S. President Donald Trump saying "appeasement" would not work.
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Thatcher would have been mortified by Obama's approach of appeasement and would have been alarmed by the Iran nuclear agreement and the $400 million ransom for hostages recently paid by the Obama administration.
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Their phone call came a day after the nuclear test and followed a tweet from Trump in which he criticized South Korea for "appeasement" when it comes to dealing with its northern neighbor.
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John KellyJohn Francis KellyMORE, to resign in protest against Trump's Russia policy, his attacks against the Russia investigations and his appeasement of the Russian dictator who continues his attacks against America today. Gen.
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"Such appeasement of the violent anti-police movement is just one more nail in the coffin of American law enforcement," said William Johnson, the executive director of the National Association of Police Organizations.
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At that news conference in Helsinki, the world was confronted with an extraordinary stew of narcissism, appeasement, moral surrender and the chronic dishonesty that Republicans have been willing to tolerate for so long.
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In the opening moments of the Soviet contest—what Orwell warned would be the "peace that is no peace"—Americans faced what appeared to be a Manichaean choice: appeasement or a world war.
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The army, the north African country's most powerful institution, has sought appeasement by meeting a number of protesters' demands including launching anti-graft probes against people suspected of misuse of power and public funds.
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party has long campaigned to abrogate Kashmir's special privileges in the constitution, which it sees as a measure of appeasement to Muslims that hinders development.
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Trump has criticized Moon over his support for diplomatic engagement with Pyongyang — something the U.S. president once called "appeasement" — and has threatened to pull out of a free trade pact between the two countries.
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Trump's allies on the far right would dismiss Ryan's non-specific condemnation as "virtue signaling," but in the context of the past year and a half, it looks much more like appeasement than posturing.
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As recently as last fall, it was Seoul that appeared sidelined by Washington in its approach to North Korea, as President Trump made fiery threats and accused South Korea of "appeasement" for advocating dialogue.
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They had staked out different positions on the North Korean crisis, and Mr. Trump had made his disdain of Mr. Moon public, even accusing him of "appeasement," an extraordinary dig at any American ally.
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Part of what could go wrong today is evident in the way that violence in the left-wing core, the university campus, gets met with excuse-making, appeasement and halfhearted punishment from liberal authorities.
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Trump and Moon have long clashed on how to rein in Kim's miilitary program — the White House has advocated force while Seoul has emphasized dialogue, a method that Moon's critics believe amounts to appeasement.
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Yet while Lady Astor was a trailblazing feminist, her political reputation was marred by anti-Semitism and by support for the appeasement of Adolf Hitler in the 1930s, leaving historians divided over her legacy.
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Trump has hinted in the past that he may not feel like living up to America's obligations in this regard, so maybe he doesn't worry about the possible knock effects of appeasement in Ukraine.
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Mrs May's greatest qualification for the job was that she took a lukewarm position, as a reluctant Remainer, on the most important issue of her time—hardly Churchill on appeasement or Thatcher on the unions.
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European Union foreign ministers, in a meeting on Monday, deemed Iran's violations not to be "significant", drawing Israeli accusations of appeasement recalling failed diplomacy with Nazi Germany in the run-up to World War Two.
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Goalkeeper Jose Luis Chilavert, the former national team captain famous for scoring penalties and free kicks, called the bid "bread and circus" — a phrase sometimes used to refer to appeasement of the people through distraction.
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The BJP, which hopes to win the support of Muslim women by taking on a divorce practice banned in Muslim-majority nations such as Pakistan and Indonesia, called the Congress' plan the "height of appeasement".
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Even after Mr. Trump accused South Korea of "appeasement" in September, a remarkable charge against an ally and one that damaged Mr. Moon politically, the South Korean leader was careful to avoid exacerbating the rift.
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The BBC barred Winston Churchill and other opponents of appeasement from the airwaves, while newspaper editors refused to print articles on Britain's unpreparedness and letters to the editor critical of the government's concessions to Germany.
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"To question his authority was treason: to deny his inspiration was almost blasphemy," recalled Harold Macmillan, the future prime minister and one of a small band of Conservative M.P.s who, like Churchill, strongly opposed appeasement.
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In the meantime, the Iranian regime has to this day successfully deceived the West, with the support of the pro-appeasement camp, in depicting an image of IRGC-backed hardliners against so-called moderates/reformists.
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Engagement with Iran, like the efforts of Germany and France in launching a trade mechanism that would bypass U.S. sanctions, is nothing more than appeasement and will only condone the country's behavior, al-Jubeir added.
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Not just during crises, but in the daily lives of nations, states "surrender" to escalation dominance when awesome nuclear threats overshadow every decision — as in NATO's virtual appeasement of Russian aggression in Crimea and Ukraine.
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If there was a discordant note on Sunday, it might have been when Trump took to Twitter to admonish South Korea, a key ally, for what he termed a policy of "appeasement" of North Korea.
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All of this raises the possibility — faintly — that while Trump steers the American right toward a foreign policy of retreat, appeasement, and non-intervention, liberals might rediscover their Trumanesque faith in the necessity of Pax Americana.
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"...Such crude attacks are nothing more than the result of the appeasement of those who have fuelled and continue to fuel anti-Russian hysteria," Peskov said of the tirade against Putin on Georgian TV on Sunday.
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Again, Reagan was hit by some on the right and by the opposition party as engaging in appeasement with the Soviets, yet Reagan's move to reduce Russian and American nuclear arms stockpiles was an historic achievement.
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They assert Biden is gaffe-prone and the energy and future of the party lies with the progressive wing, not with a swamp creature with a 36-year-long Senate career of appeasement to corporate interests.
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Word in Washington continues to indicate the fact that the Trump White House, involved in a complete overhaul of the Obama administration's failed appeasement policy, continues to weigh designating the IRGC as a foreign terrorist organization.
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It will not win every battle, but it may achieve more through obstruction, and making life miserable for the new president by increasing the cost of his anti-Mexican policies, than it will achieve by appeasement.
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As part of the endless appeasement of Europe's biggest, most powerful clubs, UEFA agreed that — from this season onward — each of Europe's big four leagues would be guaranteed four places in the Champions League's group stages.
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Yet historians differ on how many allowances to make for Lady Astor's support for appeasement and for other episodes, such as her decision in 1936 to invite Hitler's ally Joachim von Ribbentrop to a dinner party.
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Professor Gottlieb notes Lady Astor's role as the hostess of what became known as the "Cliveden set" — seen as a political hub of appeasement — and her association with American isolationists like Joseph Kennedy and Charles Lindbergh.
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It encapsulates a number of their most important talking points—that the Iran deal is a dangerous sham, that Democrats' foreign policy is all about appeasement, that Barack Obama maybe likes Muslim countries a little too much.
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Pompeo and especially super-hawk John Bolton, the national security adviser, aren't willing to consider a negotiation where they'd give as well as take; for both, compromise -- at least with Iran -- is seen as weakness, even appeasement.
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"The nature of the debate we had was rather appeasement and it stopped the escalation in terms of behavior," Macron, who had exchanged terse Twitter messages with Trump in the run-up to the summit, told reporters.
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Permissive adults who fail to learn the importance of establishing who's boss, according to Dobson, will suffer the consequences: To a power-hungry tyrant of any age, appeasement only inflames his or her lust for more power.
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For any member of the House or Senate who fails to condemn Trump's appeasement of Putin and defend America from the Russian attacks against America, voters should throw those bums out in the midterm elections in November.
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That marked the end of appeasement and further escalated tension leading toward World War II. Without warning, the most severe blizzard in modern history ripped through North Dakota and Minnesota, killing 71 people on March 15, 1941.
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In fact, it is all the byproduct of inaction, silence, and policy of appeasement adopted by the West vis-à-vis Iran, and 16 years of strategic mistakes by Washington in this flashpoint region of the globe.
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Mr. Pompeo, dispatched to the major political talk shows on Sunday, argued that "appeasement" of Iran would increase the risk of a terror attack, even as General Suleimani's death set off enormous anti-American protests in Tehran.
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Such a solution will not be found through the appeasement of Assad or his Russian allies—it can only be achieved by demonstrating genuine US leadership and action in favor of Syrians' calls for freedom and democracy.
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"She made some anti-Semitic statements, she was occasionally anti-Catholic, there were the accusations of appeasement and sympathies with Hitler," said Dr. Turner, who added that some of these views were far more widely accepted then.
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" He says "a vote for egregious obstruction of justice, rampant conflicts of interest, the demonization of minorities, the debasement of political discourse, the alienation of America&aposs allies, the end of free trade and the appeasement of dictators.
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PARIS, Oct 24 (Reuters) - A senior Saudi official said on Thursday that a policy of appeasement would not work with Iran and that the only way to get Tehran to the negotiating table was to apply maximum pressure.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump admonished South Korea, a key ally, for what he termed a policy of "appeasement" after North Korea claimed to have tested an advanced hydrogen bomb for a long-range missile on Sunday.
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Russia did enter Ukraine in 28503 and would undoubtedly keep on invading should the position of the most important global actors be favorable or neutral, or one of appeasement, and should Ukraine not continue enhancing its defense potential.
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The fact there was a war cabinet at all reflected the reality that Churchill was right about Hitler and the Nazis all along, while Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's policy of appeasement had failed utterly in stopping German expansionism.
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"For the sake of appeasement, I made the wise decision to resign with philosophy, dignity, but without bitterness," Mr. Gailhaguet, 20003, told reporters at the end of a special meeting in Paris during which he tendered his resignation.
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He called on people of all parties to be properly offended by the resurgence of white nationalism in mainstream politics or the appeasement of neo-Nazis by the president of the United States and people close to him.
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The BJP denies it has a bias against Muslims, but says it is opposed to giving unfair advantage to any community, a practice it describes as "appeasement" and alleges the opposition Congress party of long following to win votes.
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"Reconciliation with the Taliban should be handled from the position of strength, and not from the position of appeasement and weakness," former general and reigning Vice President Abdul Rashid Dostum told Fox News from his residence in Ankara, Turkey.
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In the most recent Fantastic Beasts film, Rowling attempted to respond to the increasingly fascist actions of populist governments across the US and Europe albeit channelling some distressingly piecemeal appeasement tactics through Dumbledore (as The Mary Sue pointed out).
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Even if Trump's comments are only speculative, and do not really reflect a future foreign policy, they call for appeasement of an aggressor and support the violation of a sovereign country's territorial integrity and another's breach of international law.
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Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) has adopted an attitude of placation and appeasement in his dealings with Trump and has tried to either ignore provocations from the White House or make concessions to avoid an unwanted spat.
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One of his most incisive points is that Churchill was able to lead Britain in the dark days of 1940 because he had been such a consistent critic of appeasement in the 1930s, when it made him so unpopular.
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Rosa and her mother, a well-known "appeasement specialist librarian" who helps keep ghosts calm and unthreatening to the living, have moved to a place that is apparently free of the ghosts that inhabit all other towns and cities.
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And the controversy, in which Blizzard banned a professional Hearthstone player for supporting the Hong Kong protestors in what critics say was a direct appeasement of the Chinese government, still threatens to overshadow many of the company's announcements today.
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Last Wednesday, the morning after isis suicide bombers in Brussels killed more than thirty people, Ted Cruz was on "Fox & Friends," claiming that "the weakness and appeasement" of the Obama Administration had fuelled the growth of the Islamic State.
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The BECC suspended its talks with the museum once it became clear that the Whitney's Contemporary Black Artists in America exhibition of 22014, a proposed appeasement of activists demands, would fail to include black voices in curatorial and advisory roles.
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As Mr. Erdogan seeks to eliminate all opposition and create a single-party regime, the European Union and the United States must cease their policy of appeasement and ineffectual disapproval and frankly inform him that this is a dead end.
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JFK's father, U.S. Ambassador to Britain Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., was criticized for his support of the "peace" pact British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain made with Hitler in Munich, and his stance that appeasement of Hitler was the best option.
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It is not so much that Cameron is guilty of appeasement, though there is certainly an element of that: He proposed this foolish referendum in 2013 to appease the nationalists in his Conservative Party and outflank the U.K. Independence Party.
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They should accept in advance that this fight, like others to come, may be unwinnable—but that losing a fight isn't the same as failing to rise to the occasion, and that picking only certain battles isn't synonymous with appeasement.
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"With this arrangement, we saw some sort of appeasement where we saw mutual steps from the US and Iran in improving relations and lowering tensions in various areas," said Riad Kahwaji, director of Institute for Near East and Gulf Military.
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Stories of the Second World War console us with memories of the days before Vietnam, Cambodia, and Iraq, when the United States was the world's good-hearted superpower, riding to the rescue of a Europe paralyzed by totalitarianism and appeasement.
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The UK government's slow response has taken heavy criticism in recent days, with the normally supportive Times newspaper leading with an editorial castigating the prime minister on Monday and comparing his slow response to Neville Chamberlain's appeasement of Nazi Germany.
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Mr. Trump's jab at the South on Sunday that it was practicing "appeasement" generated headlines in Seoul, as did Mr. Trump's threat to scrap a free trade agreement with South Korea, one that was signed in part to demonstrate strategic unity.
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" He compared the Paris climate agreement, signed in 2015 by the US under President Barack Obama and 194 nations, to British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's appeasement of Hitler in the 1930s and said it was "silly" and "should be canceled.
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None of this even begins to tackle the bedrock difficulties faced by cities like Flint: that the legacies of corporate appeasement and built-in discrimination have created an environment not where a single crisis can take root, but where multiple crises are compounded.
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"As soon as there are statistical cases that break the law or faked, it will be voted down, there will be zero tolerance, no appeasement," said Ning, who is also Vice Chairman of the planning body the National Development and Reform Commission.
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No disrespect to Brown, but her appointment feels more like an appeasement to those who are calling for a public editor on Facebook, and instead are getting (at best) a liaison between the opaque Facebook News Feed and actual editors in actual newsrooms.
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In addition to his appeasement tweet, Trump has said in recent days that "talking is not the answer," and Defense Secretary James Mattis warned on Sunday of a "massive military response" to any threat from North Korea against the US or its allies.
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Both Nixon and Reagan also managed to avoid the failures in summits, like when the British signed the Munich Pact that became a symbol of appeasement to Nazi Germany, where the nature and danger of the threat that were faced was underestimated.
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Trump has accused Moon of seeking "appeasement" with North Korea, though the South Korean leader has tilted more in Washington's direction in recent weeks, fully deploying a controversial US missile defense system and saying the time is not now right for dialog.
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By aggressively reshaping accepted postulates of diplomacy, Trump broke a history of naivete and appeasement and is on the verge of making the greatest contribution to world peace since Theodore Roosevelt mediated the Treaty of Portsmouth in 1905 between Russia and Japan.
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Nonetheless, living as we do in an era with uncomfortable parallels to the political turmoil of the 1930s, "Appeasement" is valuable as an exploration of the often catastrophic consequences of failing to stand up to threats to freedom, whether at home or abroad.
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Using tactics that have striking resonance today, Chamberlain and his men badgered the BBC and newspapers to follow the government's lead on appeasement, restricted journalists' access to government sources and claimed that critics of Chamberlain's policies were disloyal to him and to Britain.
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The NBA, an organization that has long cultivated a Chinese fan base and whose current preseason features exhibition games against Chinese teams, scrambled between appeasement and adamance after the Houston Rockets' general manager tweeted (then deleted) his solidarity with Hong Kong protesters.
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In Warsaw, President Andrzej Duda of Poland used the occasion to chide other European leaders for not taking the threat posed by Russian aggression seriously, making an analogy to the policies of appeasement that allowed the Nazi party to rise in Germany.
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US President Donald Trump has accused him of seeking "appeasement" with North Korea, though Trump agreed last week to suspend US-South Korean military drills during the upcoming Winter Olympics in South Korea, as an apparent show of good will to North Korea.
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"The public and the political opposition will criticize Moon for a failed appeasement policy, so there are risks here for Moon's accommodation strategy toward North Korea," Baohui Zhang, director of the Centre for Asian Pacific Studies at Lingnan University in Hong Kong, told VICE News.
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Pompeo befriended the Arkansas senator Tom Cotton, a younger fellow Harvard graduate and Army veteran, and they argued that not only would the deal fail to stop Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon; it was also an appeasement of the world's worst sponsor of terrorism.
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First, he linked this to the upcoming North Korea negotiations — reminding us that in contrast to the Iran nuclear deal, which was somewhere between appeasement and detente, his approach to North Korea has been the opposite: maximum pressure until he sees observable steps toward denuclearization.
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It would mean weathering hostility from partisans, and abandoning the outdated and false notion that provisional postures of appeasement will magically temper the worst of Republican impulses and lead to some bipartisan reversion to a fantasy consensus that never existed in the first place.
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"I think that policy is useful for a regime like the Iranian government, but on the other hand, I think that economic sanctions, and trying to build a coalition of like-minded nations to understand that appeasement does not work with terrorists," he said.
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"(It) reminds me of the European appeasement of the 1930s," Netanyahu said in a video statement after EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said none of the parties to a 2015 nuclear deal with Iran saw its increased uranium enrichment as "significant non-compliance".
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The UK government's response to the crisis has taken heavy criticism in recent days, with the normally supportive Times newspaper leading with an editorial castigating the prime minister on Monday and comparing his slow response to former Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's appeasement of Nazi Germany.
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There are plenty of compelling reasons in the short run to avoid standing up and speaking the truth, but in the end it's always a form of appeasement -- something which Winston Churchill once memorably defined as feeding a crocodile and hoping it eats you last.
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But for those of us old enough to remember, those principles used to be endemic to U.S. foreign policy for decades, until Bill Clinton and Barack Obama took the Iranian appeasement bait and George W. Bush mispositioned America as the unrelenting, trigger-happy global cop.
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Unlike other books about the prelude to World War II, "Appeasement" avoids narrowing in on a single event (Munich) or individual (Chamberlain) in favor of a more comprehensive and immersive account, beginning with Hitler's appointment as German chancellor in 1933 and ending in 1940.
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"Messaging to conservative and right-wing voters sought to do three things: repeat patriotic and anti-immigrant slogans; elicit outrage with posts about liberal appeasement of 'others' at the expense of U.S. citizens; and encourage them to vote for Trump," the Oxford team wrote.
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Titled "Donald Trump and Jimmy Fallon Are Best Friends," the video uses zooms and slow-motion to isolate the host's manic pandering, the guest's glib cynicism, and the audience's easy appeasement; the whole thing ends with a montage of Fallon being joke-slapped by his own guests.
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For now, though, he is pursuing tougher economic sanctions, including an oil embargo, and opposed to making any concessions that might look like appeasement, insisting that more pressure on the regime of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is needed before it is time to talk.
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Dr. Kurt Rieth, a German diplomat who fled Vienna by plane seven years ago at the time of the Nazi murder of Chancellor Englebert Dollfuss, has been in New York for almost two months attempting a new high-pressure task of economic appeasement for the Reich.
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Trump is correct that appeasement of the barbarous North Korean regime — and that is not too harsh a word to describe the instincts of the current government in Seoul — only makes Kim Jong-un believe that he can play nuclear chicken with the West and win.
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At a moment when South Korea needs to be able to trust America's commitments, Mr. Trump has unwisely hinted at abrogating an important bilateral trade deal, thus potentially ceding more economic ground to China, and accused its new president, Moon Jae-in, of "appeasement" toward North Korea.
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Therefore, Blizzard's ban could be construed as an appeasement to the Chinese government, which is engaged in a lengthy months-long crackdown of the Hong Kong protests and has typically applied pressure on foreign businesses that do not abide by the company's political positions and stance on free speech.
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In addition to that, we factor in credit card fees, transactional costs, insurance we have to pay which is worker's comp and auto insurance, Costco memberships we buy and appeasement costs, which are when someone does not get exactly what they wanted and we work to make that right.
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Americans a generation older may associate the house with the notorious "Cliveden Set," presided over by the strong-willed Virginian Nancy Astor, who held gatherings in the lead-up to World War II that were attended by prominent, appeasement-minded Britons and the Germans who sought their support.
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For those who think this smacks of appeasement, consider that the U.S. clearly has a deterrent capability that could virtually eliminate the North Korean regime should North Korea ever have the temerity to actually use a nuclear weapon in any conflict with a neighbor or the U.S. itself.
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After two days of protests drew hundreds of people to Pennsylvania Avenue to "welcome" Trump home from talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin that critics have denounced as appeasement, former top aides to Trump's 215 election opponent Hillary Clinton kept the momentum going by finding a Mariachi band to join in.
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The prince responded: "I hope the president isn't upset with me with what I am about to say, but we do not want to repeat the deal made in 1938 which resulted in the start of World War 2," in an apparent reference to the Munich appeasement deal with Hitler.
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"Then, next month when a new (South Korean) government gets under way, North Korea is expected to try to turn the situation around into a phase of appeasement and, use its moratorium of nuclear and ballistic missile tests to find middle ground with South Korea and the United States," Cheong said.
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Kirk has been highly critical of the administration on Iran, including the landmark nuclear deal signed by the two countries last year, comparing it to the appeasement policies toward the Nazis before World War II. The White House did not respond to a request for comment on Kirk's "drug dealer" remark.
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"America cannot respond with either flaccid appeasement or economic nationalism; it must assemble an international coalition that pressures China to stop rigging markets and start competing on fair terms," said ITIF, a Washington-based think tank whose board includes representatives from top companies such as Apple, Amazon, Cisco, Google, and Intel.
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" He added that Pyongyang has become a "great threat and embarrassment to China, which is trying to help but with little success"; warned South Korea their "talk of appeasement with North Korea will not work"; and said Washington is considering "stopping all trade with any country doing business with North Korea.
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US President Donald Trump criticized Moon this week for seeking "appeasement" with Pyongyang, while in August, Moon issued a forceful statement rebuking Trump's threats of "fire and fury" against North Korea, saying that any military actions on the Korean Peninsula must be made in consultation and with agreement from Seoul.
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Y.) characterized Trump's decision to abandon the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty, which the president announced earlier in the day during a speech delivered at the National Rifle Association (NRA) convention in Indianapolis, as "a politically-motivated appeasement" of the powerful gun lobbyist group that will haunt the United States diplomatically.
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"It is a grave breach of President Trump's responsibilities to reward President Putin by inaction for his intervention in an American election — it represents nothing less than appeasement for an attack on our country's democracy," said Representative Adam Smith of Washington State, the ranking Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee.
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For all his Scranton blue-collar beginnings, Biden will be pilloried as a faithful servant of the Party of Davos that secured impunity for the financiers behind the 2008 meltdown, a heady growth in inequality, China appeasement and the arrogance of money-wooed Democrats estranged from their working-class constituency.
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But Trump never crashed and Cruz never realized the election paradox his appeasement created: Cruz was the only one who had enough pull with the base to sink Trump, but he never took a stand against Trump that forced the conservative media to take sides until it was too late.
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About a year after Kennedy's object lesson in the efficacy of appeasement, and with the missiles safely out of Cuba, his administration, unable to foresee a downside, decided to move decisively to rein in a communist insurgency, and greenlit a coup against South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem that ended in his assassination.
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The obstruction, dysfunction and appeasement that defined BoehnerJohn Andrew BoehnerLobbyists race to cash in on cannabis boom Rising star Ratcliffe faces battle to become Trump's intel chief This little engine delivers results for DC children MORE's tenure were the result of a man incapable of handling the perch of power bestowed upon him.
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In taking to Twitter to accuse Seoul of "appeasement," Mr. Trump was venting his frustration at a new liberal South Korean government he sees as both soft on North Korea's atomic program and resistant to his demand for an overhaul of trade practices that he views as cheating American workers and companies.
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As Facebook's chief wooed the Chinese government publicly with demonstrations of deference and appeasement, he was quietly working to close an acquisition deal with a Shanghai-based startup that, had it been consummated, would have reshaped the social media landscape as much as the social network's purchase of Instagram or WhatsApp had.
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Trump has gone so far -- racial demagoguery and slurs, abuse of office, dictator appeasement, nepotism and family corruption, blazing incompetence, contempt for the rule of law, betrayal of public institutions, epic dishonesty, authoritarian thuggishness... the list never ends -- that he is damaging public institutions and debasing the Presidency of the United States.
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Hill and others worry that Trump will once again accuse Seoul -- where millions already live within reach of North Korea's nuclear arsenal -- of "appeasement" or again raise the possibility of terminating the bilateral free trade agreement between the two countries, known as KORUS, which could weaken ties between the two countries at a critical juncture.
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The mood in India has triggered the expected anger in Pakistan, with its Prime Minister Imran Khan accusing the Indian government of "acting like Hitler's Nazi party," describing Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's actions in Kashmir as a prelude to "ethnic cleansing" and warning the international community that ignoring India's actions would be appeasement.
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Like young John KennedyJohn Neely KennedyMORE who rose above the appeasement politics of his father and fully understood the danger to democracy in the 1930s, when McCain warns about the attack against democracy in America and Europe from a Russian dictator today he tells a timeless truth — which every generation ignores at its peril.
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Without the context that the findings of an F.B.I. investigation could provide, the Senate hearing planned for Monday pitting Brett Kavanaugh against Christine Blasey Ford, who has accused him of sexual assault, runs the risk of being seen as little more than Kabuki theater, or, more pointedly, a gesture of appeasement to the #MeToo movement.
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" At stake, FDR, said, was "the continuance of civilization as we know it versus the ultimate destruction of all that we have held dear — religion against godlessness; the ideal of justice against the practice of force; moral decency versus the firing squad; courage to speak out, and to act, versus the false lullaby of appeasement.
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The fact is, both men bring unique real-world experiences to their offices — Trump, as a decades-long successful businessman who has employed hundreds of thousands of people and Johnson, as a journalist, author and creative force who never has shied away from wielding cutting words as a rhetorical sword against ignorance, lies, power centers, failed policies or appeasement.
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Hannity, for his part, began his segment criticizing the "unhinged" media for lambasting Trump over his performance in Helsinki, and for failing to give him credit for his strategy of "strength, not appeasement," even though Trump has inspired rare bipartisan condemnation, including from some of his most loyal supporters, for capitulating to Putin on the international stage.
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They've been out of the cross hairs of the general public for so long that even with a top-notch offering, it's going to take more than just the appeasement of diehards, tech reviewers and people who have been waiting for the "perfect HTC phone" — if there is such a group of people — to push sales forward, ultimately saving the brand.
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The sight of the protests reportedly made the president more reluctant than ever to extend the life of the nuclear deal, which he scorns as an appeasement of an Islamic regime that funds terrorist groups, armed militants and rebel factions across the Middle East and wider region, while pursuing ballistic missile programmes that put Israel and other American allies in harm's way.
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With President Trump planning to fly to Miami on Friday to announce a Cuba policy that at least partly reverses President Obama's openings for commerce and travel after a half-century standoff, we asked officials inside and outside the White House to help us read between the lines: The base loves a little Obama-appeasement rhetoric, and Trump plans to give it to 'em.
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The commentary in the US in the lead-up to Munich was exactly what you'd expect: comparing it to Neville Chamberlain's appeasement of Hitler at that same city in 1938, accusing President Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry of not just incompetence but of deliberately selling out the Syrian rebels, and, most of all, declaring that American policy is morally bankrupt and responsible for abetting genocide.
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Their words and actions continue to be very hostile and dangerous to the United States... North Korea is a rogue nation which has become a great threat and embarrassment to China, which is trying to help but with little success... South Korea is finding, as I have told them, that their talk of appeasement with North Korea will not work, they only understand one thing!
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Concerned about how to achieve long-term peace in Europe, and watchful about the threat of Bolshevism, he argued that the terms imposed on Germany by the Treaty of Versailles were overly harsh: The same spirit of magnanimity — or "appeasement," in Smuts's words — that had achieved a workable peace between Britons and Boers ought now to be demonstrated in the case of German reparations.
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Now that Germany has a new government we can hope that under Merkel's leadership and that of the coalition that she has formed with the SPD, that Germany will conduct a consistent policy commensurate with its capabilities to enhance the EU and NATO and not chase after the mirage of appeasement-like concessions to Russia at the expense of Eastern European governments and the larger security of the continent.
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During the campaign, Moon advocated for greater engagement with Pyongyang to reduce tensions, and as leader he has had to walk a delicate line between North Korea and the US. Relations with Washington appeared to be hurting as Pyongyang continued its missile and nuclear testing, with Trump at one point accusing Moon of seeking "appeasement" with North Korea, though relations improved considerably during the US President's trip to Seoul late last year.
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A George W. Bush-era State Department official on Sunday slammed a tweet from President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE that argued South Korea is learning that appeasement will not work with its northern neighbor.
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"After years of appeasement of the Iranian and Syrian regimes, which had no outcome but more war crimes and more crimes against humanity, the disabling of the chemical centers, bases, and the machinery of war and repression in Syria must be completed by expelling the Iranian regime, the Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and its mercenary forces from Syria, Iraq, and Yemen," said Iranian opposition leader Maryam Rajavi, president of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI).
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The jury is still out whether President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE has fundamentally moved the Republican Party toward a more populist platform, but there are some within the GOP who believe that elements of "Trumpism" should be opposed as vigorously as Churchill railed against appeasement.
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Though many choose not to believe, the red flags have been there all along: the desire to rewrite America's narrative; the promise of economic equality through wealth redistribution; the hamstringing of the economy through stifling regulations; the pursuit of a foreign policy built on apology and appeasement; not to forget the war on law enforcement, the judiciary, the criminal justice system, the constitution, our schools, the middle class, even entertainment — all as expressions of racism, privilege and capitalism gone amok ... the list goes on.
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Similarly, a separate independent letter from 20 scholars and policy experts asked the Obama administration "to formulate a systematic response that encourages legal reform, improves police capabilities and law enforcement, and reinforces religious tolerance and interfaith understanding," in order to ensure that Pakistan is a peaceful and stable partner for the U.S. While U.S. - Pakistan relations are multifaceted and fraught with complexities, our current policy of appeasement has not only proven futile, but counterproductive, as extremism and terrorism in the region have only grown exponentially and destabilized the region.
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