There was no appeasement under Carter. You're making stuff up.
You don't recall Carter cancelling the B1 bomber outside of his own strategic talks, thus getting no Russian concessions for caving to their demands?
How about Carter negotiating his own SALT that would take the United States from a significant advantage in strategic weapons to a strategic disadvantage? That treaty was so far down appeasement lane that a safely Democrat Senate would not touch it, wouldn't even come close to ratifying it.
Is he ever! From claiming it was the right wing that won the Cold War when it was a decades long and fully bi-partisan effort (we were ALL cold warriors) to this below, the guy simply doesn't seem know the basic FACTS of post WWII history.
RUSSIA won because of the predominance of the Red Army in Eastern Europe after WWII. The Soviet Union under the murderous facist Stalin was a nationalist, expansionist, totalitarian state that was "Communist" in name only.
Millions of lives lost in "numerous" uprisings in Eastern Europe from 1946 -1989? Please try and document this hysterically untrue fake right wing history you put forth. It is simply not true.
Neither the German uprising in 1953 nor the more famous Hungarian uprising in 1956 did one damn thing to alter the Russian occupation. Your fevered, fake history that VIOLENT dissent brought down that occupation is, whole cloth, untrue.
The Russian occupation collapsed across numerous countries when the Soviet Union collapsed. And, yes, the Russian domination of Eastern Europe collapsed in country after country with almost no bloodshed at all.
You are not welcome to your own facts on this history.
Uhh, nope. That's like saying after a couple/three attempts at shots went wide and caused no real damage at all to the occupation, which, YEARS LATER, collapsed and died because it was an IDEA whose time had passed.
The West won the war of ideas. And the West will only prevail against the Islamic militants, not by trying to kill them all, but by winning, patiently and doggedly over time, the war of ideas.
I know it's not as alluringly simple as the extreme right wing solution of "kill them all", based on the bigoted right wing notion of "All Muslims bad", but there you go.
Yeah, you're going to have to explain to me how "the predominance of the Red Army in Eastern Europe after WWII" is somehow different from "more Communists with guns willing to kill to impose [Communism] on their fellow man". Are you perhaps under the impression that the Red Army remained in Eastern Europe on holiday? Perhaps selling time shares in Crimea? Because most of us are aware that they were there imposing Communism on their fellow man.
There were a LOT of uprisings in Europe, not two. There were numerous uprisings especially in the 50s and 60s, typically put down by tanks and followed by a mass of arrests and disappearances. Millions of Europeans over half a century were killed by military action, disappeared by secret police, or simply starved. Martin Malia's estimate of 85 - 100 million deaths by communism, with approximately 1 million in Eastern Europe alone. But let's look at country by country. In and around 1945 alone, Bulgaria lost between 50,000 and 100,000. East Germany lost 80,000 to 100,000, Romania between 60,000 and 300,000, Hungary probably another 120,000. Now since you maintain that the Soviet Union collapsed from within and wasn't even Communism anyway, you probably consider these acts of G-d, but during the twentieth century there were no equivalent famines in non-Communist countries. The tiny Baltic states alone had over half a million deported, with 20,000 dying in the Soviet Union, on top of massive deportations (with a 50% death rate) in '40 & '41. That isn't even including the death rate of those who fought the Soviets until 1958.
Scott Manning has compiled his own list of the total deaths caused by Communism after the initial subjugation period. (i.e. for Europe, his numbers typically start in '48 or '49.) His numbers for Europe are:
East Germany: 70,000
Albania: 100,000
Bulgaria: 222,000
Czechoslovakia: 65,000
Hungary: 27,000
Poland: 22,000
Romania: 435,000
Yugoslavia: 1,072,000
Just for those eight European nations, that's 2,013,000 deaths. And again, this is AFTER the initial years of deportations, murders, fighting, & disappearances.
The left likes to minimize the evil of Communism, perhaps because it's a left ideology and perhaps because it's true colors are not well suited to the left's celebrated strategy of doing nothing over long periods of time. But even in Europe, Communism was an evil, bloody, violent and repressive form of government. Now that we're being faced with an equally evil, bloody, violent and repressive opposing ideology, the left's strategy has shifted to embracing them, trying not to anger them, and hoping for the best.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_killings_under_Communist_regimes#East_Germany
https://archive.org/details/TheBlackBookofCommunism10
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_of_the_Baltic_states
http://www.scottmanning.com/content/communist-body-count/