Under pressure from Azerbaijan, Turkey, and Russia, the Armenian government has engaged in appeasement, hoping to avoid war but inviting only further aggression
Lilia Arakelyan & David A. Grigorian & Gayane Hovakimian & Eduard Abrahamyan & Henry C. Theriault & Awring ShawaysApril 21, 2025
A “peace at all costs” attitude belies that an unjust, strategically unsound peace that just kicks the can down the road will be no peace at all
J. Daryl CharlesFebruary 28, 2025
If the West allows the credible threat of deterrence to die with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, only more violence will ensue in the long run
J. Daryl CharlesAugust 15, 2024
Lessons from the British Poet Rudyard Kipling warn of appeasement to aggressors, drawing on the lessons of history
Mike CotéJuly 22, 2024
The Biden administration’s policy in Latin America has empowered anti-American regimes and endangered national interests.
Mike CotéJuly 5, 2024
Appeasement is an incentivizing force behind Turkey’s pursuit of strategic autonomy and extortion.
Dan HarreJuly 19, 2022
We are told that a policy of firmness must inevitably lead to war, while conciliation could guarantee peace. In the Nazi days this was called appeasement.
Christianity & Crisis Magazine & Reinhold Niebuhr & Mark MeltonMarch 1, 2022
In May 1940, Lord Halifax urged Winston Churchill to call for a national day of prayer to aid in the evacuation of the troops in Dunkirk.
Robert MorrisonMay 28, 2021
In nearly every war both sides point to the offenses and wickedness of their enemies, hoping to solidify that they are on the side of morality and godliness and to justify their decision to fight. The Axis Powers of World War II undoubtedly had perverse and wicked aims, but in this article Eduard Heimann argues that the democracies, and particularly the Christians living within them, deserve blame for the war as well.
Christianity & Crisis MagazineJanuary 23, 2018