Our ‘nice, quiet sleep’ in Ukraine won’t last

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On Sept. 30, 1938, Neville Chamberlain, prime minister of Great Britain, returned from signing the Munich Agreement with Adolf Hitler to tell the British people, “I believe it is peace for our time. … Go home and get a nice quiet sleep.” This message was certainly welcomed by many in Britain and the world. By the terms of this agreement, England agreed that it would not interfere with Germany’s invasion of Czechoslovakia to absorb the Sudetenland, while Hitler agreed that this would be his “last territorial demand in Europe.” One could certainly make good arguments for Chamberlain’s policy of appeasement....