India, Feb. 22 -- In 1945, Karl Popper published "The Open Society and its enemies" in the UK, and since then, several individuals have emerged over the decades who claimed to be champions of the Open Society, but whose actions proved the reverse to be true. Popper wrote that the Open Society was under attack by authoritarians who believed in the inevitability of their rise. Clearly he had been influenced by the years when Germany was ruled by Adolf Hitler, a byword in tyranny. What Popper failed to perceive was the threat that Open Society faced from within. In 2022, the excuse trotted out by countries in Europe for assisting Ukraine in its war on Russia was that they were helping Zelenskyy to defeat authoritarianism in the form of the R...