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History does not teach lessons. Lessons are distilled at best, often selectively. The standard lesson of the 1938 Munich Agreement is that any compromise with aggression will lead to more aggression. But the danger of “conciliation”https://comw.org/pda/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/compass.jpg448364