Lawmaker Worries About 1930s-Style Appeasement in Ukraine

patrick.goodenough | August 18, 2014
Font Size

Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.) expressed concern Sunday about the contention by some that President Vladimir Putin should be given Crimea and parts of eastern Ukraine because he wants to protect ethnic Russians there, pointing out the consequences of similarly appeasing Hitler in 1938.