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Podcast: Townhall Review | Commentaries
Episode: Hugh Hewitt: Appeasement Won’t Work
Description: On November 12, 1940 Winston Churchill gave a eulogy for his predecessor—Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. “It fell to Neville Chamberlain,” Churchill said, “in one of the supreme crises of the world to be contradicted by events, to be disappointed in his hopes, and to be deceived and cheated by a wicked man.” The lesson from the 1930s—relevant for us today—are that it’s impossible to rely on the word of tyrants. Hitler was a tyrant. Stalin was a tyrant. President Xi Jinping of China is a tyrant. Vladimir Putin is an evil tyrant. Iran’s Ay...