Opinion: It's a comparison which is unproductive at best and dangerous at worst as it effectively kills public debate As war has returned to Europe, and more recently to the Middle East, an old comparison used in times of conflict has been resurrected (though, to be fair, it never really dies down): one side is like the Nazis, and their leader is the new Hitler. Whether it is Vladimir Putin claiming to be fighting neo-Nazis, Ukrainians calling him the new Hitler, Benjamin Netanyahu declaring that Hamas are essentially Nazis, or Palestinians arguing that the roles have now been flipped, the...