Another example of appeasement -

We did not learn from the debacle in Afghanistan as evidenced in the decisions being made in the Russian invasion of Ukraine.   We seem to base our decisions on a fear of escalation with Russia instead of exercising American power and let Russia worry about escalation.  We have it backwards.  Some examples:   We failed to support early before Russia invaded, and now we are concerned about our support being taken as escalation by Russia.  Recently we overlooked Poland's efforts to provide aircraft to Ukraine as well as Ukraine's requesting them; all based on a worry of Russia taking those actions as escalation by the US.   Very disappointing to see us act on the wrong assumptions in this conflict and fail to exercise American power and resolve.