Spot on my friend
The appeasers do not comprehend that you must negotiate with an upper hand in order to win
"you must negotiate with an upper hand in order to win"
the appeasers certainly DON'T understand that. Remember the ruckus when Reagan got the missles into NATO to counter the Soviet missles? The liberals screamed bloody murder, Reagan the war-monger, etc. Too dense to realize that the purpose of putting the missles there was in order to NOT have to use them!! To preserve the PEACE against a growing threat from the Soviets . . .
The purpose of an adequate defense budget and adequate forces during the Reagan build up during the Cold War, was to HAVE them so the Soviets did not miscalculate and jeopardize the peace. Reagan WON the Cold War with such strategy, and with very little blood, even though with some treausure in the Defense budget.