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Indeed, why not find common ground with a totalitarian regime that conducts genocides and violently suppresses democracy and dissent

take it from an old man that was born in eastern europe in another totalitarian regime, I've seen it in practice, I've seen the horrors behind closed doors: appeasement never works and only prolongs the suffering of the people.

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I hate to make a whataboutism argument, but the US is no angel either.

Okay, so? Countries around China need to deal with China's aggression all the time. That isn't resolved by pointing out that the US sucks too.

That's like saying someone having 2 beers a week, is the same as an alcoholic.

> appeasement never works

lmaoo for everything that works they wouldn't be called appeasement, just treaty. Is Paris Peace Accords an appeasement that doesn't work? It sealed the demise of the non-communist South Vietnam, but no one cared about South Vietnam today aside of fringe Vietnamese in California.

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