“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,” said Spanish-American philosopher George Santayana in his 1905 work The Life of Reason. The line has been borrowed and paraphrased by many great thinkers, including Winston Churchill.
It is being cycled again, this time by a Polish foreign policy analyst who said Europe must restore its power or risk becoming a subordinate area of influence.
Małgorzata Bonikowska, director of the Center for International Relations Foundation (CSM), a think tank located in Warsaw, contends the world is already entering “an era of brutal rivalry” among great countries for areas of influence, resources, and technical supremacy.
