So, if you believe the media, isolationism is growing.  Americans don't want to get involved with foreign entanglements.  They want to get out of Ukraine.  Don't want any money there.  This is what the media is pushing.  Some high-profile individuals absolutely fit into that isolationist category.  The regular folks, I don't think are there, but I could be wrong,

 

The interesting part of isolationism is that it's on both sides.  The MAGA conservative side and the liberal progressive side. 

Appeasement of tyrants never works.  Ever. In the history of mankind.  It's never worked.  So, in modern-day history, you remember that British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain visited Hitler in 1938, and Hitler was taking Austria and Czechoslovakia, and he's violating the Treaty of Versailles, he's doing everything, he's re-arming.  I mean, obviously, this guy was gonna cause trouble, massive trouble, and the British go 'okay, go ahead.' 

 

Then, at the end of World War II, Winston Churchill, the Prime Minister, and President Roosevelt, along with Stalin, met at Yalta, when the war was already a fait accompli, with Hitler's defeat assured.  And at the end of FDR's life, he gave away the store to Stalin, gave Stalin everything he wanted.  Winston was a little perturbed by it, but didn't have the power.  And General Patton was going absolutely nuts that FDR was giving Stalin everything he wanted.  What did that lead to?  The Cold War.

 

Appeasement never works.  If you appease Putin, there's gonna be more trouble.  Don't think there won't be.  If you don't believe that, then you live in a bubble.