Since the very early days of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, advocates of war between between NATO and the Russian Federation have repeatedly invoked the so-called “lesson of Munich.” The ”lesson” is that any sort of military aggression by a non-NATO state requires an aggressive military response from the United States and its allies. 

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