When Does Appeasement Become Active Alliance?
The question that forms the title of this short post has been answered in one of the clearest ways possible: Appeasement of a tyrannical aggressor becomes open and active alliance with that aggressor when the appeaser explicitly sides with the aggressor in rejecting a simple UN resolution reiterating that body’s three-year-long condemnation of the tyrant’s ongoing war of annihilation against a sovereign nation, and instead attempts to substitute a moral equivalency resolution lamenting the war’s “loss of life” while removing any reference to causation or moral judgment regarding right and wrong. Such is the position and action that Donald Trump’s treasonous U.S. administration has now taken on the floor of the UN.
First, the US opposed a European-drafted resolution condemning Moscow’s actions and supporting Ukraine’s territorial integrity – voting the same way as Russia and countries including North Korea and Belarus at the UN General Assembly (UNGA) in New York.
Then the US drafted and voted for a resolution at the UN Security Council which called for an end to the conflict, but contained no criticism of Russia.
There we are, the barrel’s bottom reached with a thud of obviousness at last. The appeaser has transformed himself, by that act of extreme capitulation and downright pro-Putin advocacy on the global stage, into an outright ally of Vladimir Putin and quiet partner (at least) in his three-year-long invasion of Ukraine, which of course is only the final push in an occupation which began in 2014. In terms of psychological motivation, in this case, “alliance,” as ugly as that word is in such a context, is really just a euphemism for appeasement amplified and untethered due to the most cowardly form of self-interest, aka the total betrayal of all one’s friends and countrymen in an access of pure, childish terror. Such is the great man upon whose permanently shrugging and cringing shoulders America has chosen to rest its fate.
Harry Truman, who made what is arguably the most fateful and ominous decision in the history of military confrontation, famously adorned his desk in the Oval Office with a plaque reading, “The buck stops here.” Donald Trump’s Oval Office deserves a plaque of its own. Perhaps “America stops here.” Or “Honor stops here.” Or “Anything for a buck here.” Or “Courage whisked right past here in the dead of night without slowing down.”
