Appeasement would be things like worrying about the US's reaction and increasing reliance on them. Or doing stupid things like assisting Trump with his little Middle East hissyfit when he keeps asking.

Instead we're making deals with China, America's biggest enemy, and we're deeply increasing ties with the EU, to the point that EU leaders are joking about membership.

Unfortunately, we do have deep ties to the US, that we've built over centuries, deliberately suiciding that relationship would be economically catastrophic, and I have to say I'm really happy with how quickly we're working to build external relationships.

Our reliance on the US is rapidly decreasing, and we're building relationships for our key industries, such as large defence contracts with the EU, where we can now sell weapons there on similar terms as member states.

That said, I'm as unhappy as anyone with stuff like the Palantir deal, and I don't know that we need F-35s either, but these things move really slowly, and I'm sympathetic that there's good reasons not to rock the boat with the US more than necessary. We're fighting plenty on the really important things, we can't die on every hill without directly hurting the quality of life of Canadians.