Since time immemorial, thinkers and leaders have used history to understand the present and plan for the future. But after the unconscionable carnage of the 20th century, with its pleas of ‘never again’, claims of being on the ‘right side’ of history seem to have taken precedence over the study of it. Is it still possible to keep history from being molested by geopolitics? To discuss this, Oksana is joined by Jiang Xueqin, a historian and host of the Predictive History YouTube channel.