appeasement

Most alarming, however, may be the appeasement politics of university administrations — most notably at Columbia, where officials agreed to a series of draconian anti-student policies after Trump threatened $400 million in federal funding.

“It can only be explained as an attempt at advanced appeasement of the Trump administration’s current threats,” Soucek said.

Margaret Owen, 93, accused Trump of "appeasement", saying she remembered the Munich Agreement in which western powers signed a deal with Hitler in the years before the Second World War.

"We are negotiating to end the conflict. It is 'appeasement' only if you think the Ukrainians have a credible pathway to victory. They don't, so it's not," he said in a post on X.

“But he will not be honored if the peace is an appeasement, one that bows down in the face of evil as it denies obvious truths.”