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If policy of détente is the continuation of moderate pacifism on state level, appeasement policy may be sees as continuation of a more radical (suicidal) pacifism. In any case Germany had lost its instinct for '''geopolitics''' after having adopted a pacifistic base attitude. After WWII strong nationalism and '''imperialism''' was meant to be avoided, to banned from our heads. And so we also didn't want to deal with those matters in foreign policy. We wanted to believe that Russia would become less aggressive with time but Putin became too greedy and frustrated and eventually saw imperialism as solution to speed up development to reach old might. The reasons are manifold. America's bad roll model, Russia's self-definition, our comfortable focus on geopolitics ignoring economy - just to name a few. Germany should have played a more active roll though nobody would have really liked that either. -- Instead of "having hopes", as a minimum condition appeasement would have needed exact monitoring to be responsible. It would have created other kinds of conflict.