I have just done a similar reply to another friend. No use to keep the eyes on the past, as then it is taken off the future, but that's exactly what is happening. The claim that the terrible present is the result of the past doesn't wash anymore, as instead of learning from the past in order not to repeat it, much more discord is now sown between the nations in order to hold on to the power and the money pots.
So many wrongs nowadays that one cannot even see or think that it will ever end.
In the meantime the people continue to suffer.