[DoodleDawg]

It’s about tougher economic sanctions, not war.

And how often has one led to the other?

[Norm Lenhart]

Notice how they have avoided that issue over the whole argument?

[rbmillerjr]

...It’s about tougher economic sanctions, not war....

“And how often has one led to the other?”

Usually the war has already started, prior to the appeasing measure. Annexing sovereign land is an act of war. Russia sending in specops troops to prep for a land grab is an act of war.

History illustrates it well. Germany annexed Sudetenland and other areas. Was the appeasing action (meaningless treaties of promise not to annex more land) the cause of the war? No. The war had already started. Though appeasement causes more acts of war. Were the sanctions on the Imperial Japanse the cause of war? No they had already invaded many other sovereign nations.