'Junk history' and Swedish neutrality

The historian Stephen Kotkin of Stanford’s Hoover Institution has penned an important new essay on the phenomenon of “junk history”: reductionist or plainly wrong interpretations of historical events that have little or no basis in empirical reality but are nevertheless “marshaled in policy debates as justification for action, up to launching wars.” The emblematic example, which has recently been used by advocates for the war with Iran, is the failure of British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlai

Source: Responsible Statecraft