BRUSSELS, Sept. 3 (UPI) -- British Prime Minister David Cameron warned against appeasement toward Russia at a European Union summit in Brussels Wednesday.
Speaking in a closed-door session on the 75th anniversary of Britain's involvement in World War II, Cameron compared Russian President Vladimir Putin's seizure of Crimea and military assistance to pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine to British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's appeasement approach toward Adolf Hitler in 1938. Europe's latitude, by declining to contain German aggression in acquiring territory, led to the German invasion of Poland a year later and the start of the war.