11/11 - 90 years

It's 90 years since the First World War ended on the western front - symbolically with a truce beginning at 11:11 on the eleventh day of the eleventh month.

In the part of the world where I move it has profoundly changed history and geography. The map and developments in the Middle East were changed to the core and the parts which were not sorted out but frozen still haunt us. At home in Sweden, we were less involved, but of course not unscathed.

Niclas Ekdal previously of Dagens Nyheter sees important similarities with our time.