: Ukraine: What are the responsibilities for India and other ‘neutral’ countries in the conflict? #IndiaNEWS There is a popular cartoon by Tom Toro that has been doing the social media rounds since

Ukraine: What are the responsibilities for India and other ‘neutral’ countries in the conflict? #IndiaNEWS
There is a popular cartoon by Tom Toro that has been doing the social media rounds since 2012, in which two historians sit in a book-lined library as one complains: “Those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it. Yet those who do study history are doomed to stand by helplessly while everyone else repeats it.�?As a historian, I do not much subscribe to the histoire se répète (history repeats itself) school of thought. No two moments are ever “the same�?. Context changes everything – and the complexities of context are as important to understanding an event as the potential similarities with another moment in time.I find many of the historical analogies being bandied about over the war in Ukraine banal. There is nothing to be gained from equating Putin with Hitler or likening Russia’s invasion of Ukraine with Germany’s invasion of Poland in 1939.But what is useful in studying past wars is that they help us understand what aspects of a current crisis might be worth asking critical questions about.In that sense, Torl�&�؝�ۈ��]K�X�X[H�[�]��Y��[��][��݈��X�]�H��ۜ�X�[]H�܈H؈[�ZܘZ[�H[�]��X�[ˈ��]�[��[�ܜ�܈�H؈[��[�H�[��ˋ��XY[ܙH

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