Poland’s prime minister says the West’s appeasement of Vladimir Putin must stop
Mateusz Morawiecki wants more support from the European Union
THE WAR IN Ukraine makes us realise that, though history is a good teacher, it has some poor students. Several Western European politicians have forgotten the lesson offered by the Munich agreement of 1938. The analogies with the present situation are striking. The policy of appeasement, spearheaded by Britain’s prime minister at the time, Neville Chamberlain, was followed by the outbreak of the second world war within a year.
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