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It won't satisfy Russia, though. It will just give a thumbs up to them and anyone else wanting to make a land grab that they can go ahead and the US will look for appeasement. This is exactly the kind of thinking that lead to Chamberlain letting Hitler take the Sudetenland and Czechoslovakia.


And there is also hundreds of years of historical experience where establishing buffer states worked.


So how are you buffering Finland, or the Baltics? Where is Poland's buffer once you sacrifice Ukraine?


Like Belgium.

Oh wait...




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