Appeasement would have been to allow the LPR and DPR independence and cede Crimea before all of this even started. To avoid devastation, needless deaths and th

Appeasement would have been to allow the LPR and DPR independence and cede Crimea before all of this even started. To avoid devastation, needless deaths and the mass exodus of refugees. Now even if the war was over tomorrow it would take decades to recover - to deal with unexploded ordnance and for people to return. We're way past appeasement.