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The term "appeasement" gets kicked around a lot in American politics, and the list of foreign leaders compared with modern-day "Hitlers" is a long one.

Joe Biden has told the BBC that pressure from the Trump administration on Ukraine to give up territory to Russia is "modern-day appeasement" in an exclusive interview, his first since leaving the White House.

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.