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Chamberlain decided not to join the war, look what that resulted in.

Well he did... just a few years later.

To be fair in 1938 Britain hardly had a land army so France would have had to do all the fighting anyway. So whatever Chamberlain wanted to do didn't really matter that much.

Did you actually read all the posts pointing this and all the _other_ aggressive actions Russia is taking against the EU?

Regardless, Russia is a bully and sticking your head in the sand won't make them go away.

Russia (or Putin, to be precise) has repeatedly threatened to invade EU members in the Baltics (rebuilding the SU/Russian Empire/etc), as well as threatened EU with stopping gas supply, which would've been a direct hit to the economy. These two are confirmed facts, there's also a lot more stuff speculated which you can freely find online.