Political analogies run risk of misinterpreting history Andrew Hammond Winston Churchill at Parliament Square, London, Britain, January 24, 2021. (Reuters) Short Url https://arab.news/mwyu3 Seventy-five years on from Winston Churchill’s historic speech — in which he said, “from Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent” — political analogies continue to be made with the former UK prime minister’s prescient warnings about the impending US-Soviet Cold War. However, prior events can be misinterpreted by policymakers, just as ...