What does it mean to be 'neutral' over Ukraine - and what responsibilities come with it? | RNZ News
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Studying past wars helps us understand what aspects of a current crisis might be worth asking critical questions about, Maartje Abbenhuis writes.
19 March 2022, 8:50pm What does it mean to be 'neutral' over Ukraine - and what responsibilities come with it? Maartje Abbenhuis* for Caption: A Ukrainian serviceman looks through binoculars towards the town of Stoyanka at a checkpoint before the last bridge on the road that connects Stoyanka with Kyiv, on 6 March 2022. Photo credit: AFP There's a popular cartoon by Tom Toro that's been doing the social media rounds since 2012, in which two historians sit in a book-lined library as one complains: "Those who don't study history are doomed to repeat it. Yet those who do study history are doomed
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