A tale of two buildings: Munich and Vietnam at war in Ukraine

A tale of two buildings: Munich and Vietnam at war in Ukraine

Cover image: picture alliance / ullstein bild | Heinrich Hoffmann Last week, I took a long, strange trip through the two metaphors that define the Western approach to conflict. It began in Munich, standing outside the Führerbau, the building where Britain, France, Germany and Italy signed the 1938 Munich agreement that ceded the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia to Germany to avoid a broader war. The building now, somewhat implausibly, houses…