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We Must Now Learn the Lesson of 1914, Not the Lesson of 1938

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We Must Now Learn the Lesson of 1914, Not the Lesson of 1938
A month after the invasion of Poland that began the Second World War German troops parade in front of Adolf Hitler and Nazi generals in Warsaw, Poland, on Oct. 5, 1939. Public Domain
Ryan McMaken
Mises Institute
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With proponents of military intervention and war, it’s always 1938, and every attempt to substitute diplomacy for escalation and war is “appeasement.”

Ryan McMaken is the editor of Mises Wire and The Austrian. He has degrees in economics and political science from the University of Colorado and was the economist for the Colorado Division of Housing from 2009 to 2014. He is the author of "Commie Cowboys: The Bourgeoisie and the Nation-State in the Western Genre."
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