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S8 Ep1104: Grant Newsham. The Shadow of Appeasement: Europe's Unwillingness to Defend Itself. Newsham compares current European hesitation to confront Russia with 1930s appeasement. He argues that many European nations have developed a "pathologic dependence" on the

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 8 July 2026

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Grant Newsham. The Shadow of Appeasement: Europe's Unwillingness to Defend Itself. Newsham compares current European hesitation to confront Russia with 1930s appeasement. He argues that many European nations have developed a "pathologic dependence" on the U.S. to fund their social welfare states. He warns that without U.S. backing, Europe lacks the unity to stop Russian aggression. (15)
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and other members of the policy planning staff have other concerns besides Ukraine. Russia,

1:05.2

for example, within these last days, Donald Tuss, the Prime Minister of Poland, tells us that

1:10.5

U.S. intelligence has informed

1:12.4

his government, that Russia is not only threatening Poland, threatening to push back hard on the

1:18.6

Polish frontier. Adding to that concern is Finland, one of the newest members, the newest

1:24.8

member of NATO. Finnish leadership is saying that Russia attacks

1:30.2

us after it finishes with Ukraine. Now, why I mention these two countries is they both have history

1:36.0

with Moscow, Poland during the Second War and centuries back, and Finland during the Second

1:43.5

War and centuries back, the Winter War,

1:46.3

was Finland making the Soviets pay for the territory they won in a slug fest. Poland has

1:53.0

never, ever given up on the idea that they have payback coming to Moscow for what it did

1:58.5

in conjunction with Hitler in 1939.

2:02.4

We're talking about long grievances, recent grievances, from two members of NATO,

2:07.7

one of whom Poland is not only paid up, they've paid more than 5%.

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