Pressions

Pression is a word rarely seen, and suggests a creative act:

to press yourself, hold yourself accountable to your principles.

Impression is to form that pression's image and to hold it in concentration.

Expression is to give it reality in your life.

Repression is the denial of any or all three of the above, and the murder of them.

Depression may well follow in the latter case.

Compression is how one might describe a reality-challenged political elite

in clinch with the reality of a nation's dissatisfaction at being dissed, when

matters of principle are swept aside and growing dissent is faced with

growing authoritarian measures to maintain and enforce obligatory docility.

Erpressung is a German word for extortion, as when the Mafia offers a shopkeeper

the choice between paying protection money on pain of remaining unprotected from

the threat of the Mafia's own violence – or of refusing it and taking the consequences

of asserting that one would rather see to one's own security and remain sovereign.

The Mafia here is the EU, and each European nation which at present
has finally chosen the second course is that shopkeeper.
Germany marries the Mafiosi, dreaming of a wonderful honeymoon
and a future of cold dhimmitude.

(Appeasement is no substitute for deescalation,
nor should the two ever be confused.

Only self-defense can decisively turn the tide.)