[hollerith]

>Finland is a very poor example, because for over half a century they did exactly what you recommend, and then re-evaluated and abandoned their strategy in a month when Putin invaded Ukraine.

Finland stopped appeasing Russia after the strategic situation had fundamentally changed, and if Ukraine had decided to appease Russia in 2022, they could've waited (in peace) for a similar change.

Specifically, the change was that Russia became weaker and lost direct control over territories like the Baltic states and particularly Ukraine that it cares about a lot more than it cares about Finland, so obviously Russia is going to try to use its dimished resources to regain control over Ukraine and the Baltics before they start caring as much about Finland as they did earlier.