Hagai M. Segal
Weaponising History: Putin, Abuse of the 80th Anniversary of WWII and the Lessons for Us All
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Summary
As Europe celebrates and commemorates 80 years since victory on the continent against Nazi Germany and its allies, Vladimir Putin saw another opportunity to manipulate and weaponize the legacy of WWII for his own purposes. And he is not alone. The consequences are far reaching and should be frightening—as Orwell warned in his novel 1984: “Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past.” All of this and more are explored in this lecture, especially its implications for Europe and the US today.
Hagai M. Segal
Hagai M. Segal is an award-winning academic, consultant, and analyst, specializing in geopolitics, terrorism, and the Middle East. A New York University London professor, Hagai served on the London First Security and Resilience Advisory Board for its whole 10-year tenure and has worked with and advised numerous government agencies and other public bodies across the globe, including the FBI, the Metropolitan Police, the British Armed Forces, and elite military units and police forces in Asia and Australasia. Hagai also helped plan and facilitate a round of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks in 2004, and uses maps from these and other negotiations in his teaching/education sessions. (He is not to be confused with a commentator in Israel of the same name Hagai Segal/Haggai Segal!)