In a rousing speech to the British House of Commons in 1948, Sir Winston Churchill said the words, “Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it.” For those of us that do study our history, it is sad to see what is happening in Ukraine today. There is much debate about whether the current conflict was inevitable – Russia has, in one way or another, been in control of some or all of Ukraine since around 1686 with only brief periods of independence in Ukraine, most notably, of course the period since 1991 when Ukraine officially broke away from the Soviet Union.