Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has told the Wall Street Journal that Washington has rejected traditional diplomacy, and in the absence of a great leader, has driven the world to the precipice of war over Ukraine and Taiwan.
Kissinger previously courted controversy for suggesting that Kiev abandon some of its territorial claims to end the conflict with Russia.
“We are at the edge of war with Russia and China on issues which we partly created, without any concept of how this is going to end or what it’s supposed to lead to,” Kissinger said in the interview, published on Saturday.
Kissinger, now 99 years old, elaborated on the West’s role in the Ukraine conflict in a recent book profiling prominent post-WWII leaders. He described Russia’s decision to send troops into the country in February as motivated by its own security, as having Ukraine join NATO would move the alliance’s weapons to within 300 miles (480km) of Moscow. Conversely, having Ukraine in its entirety fall under Russian influence would do little to “calm historic European fears of Russian domination.”
Diplomats in Kiev and Washington should have balanced these concerns, he wrote, describing the current conflict in Ukraine as “an outgrowth of a failed strategic dialogue.” Speaking to the Wall Street Journal a month after the book’s publication, Kissinger stood by his insistence that the West should have taken Russian President Vladimir Putin’s security demands seriously, and made it clear that Ukraine would not be accepted into NATO alliance.
In the runup to its military operation in Ukraine, Russia presented the US and NATO with written outlines of its security concerns, which were rejected by both receiving parties.
Kissinger, who in the late 1960s and early 1970s held extensive negotiations with Vietnamese communists even as the US military waged war against them, said that modern American leaders tend to view diplomacy as having “personal relationships with the adversary,” and in words paraphrased by the Wall Street Journal, “tend to view negotiations in missionary, rather than psychological terms, seeking to convert or condemn their interlocutors rather than to penetrate their thinking.”
Instead, Kissinger argued that the US should seek “equilibrium” between itself, Russia, and China.
This term refers to “a kind of balance of power, with an acceptance of the legitimacy of sometimes opposing values,” Kissinger explained. “Because if you believe that the final outcome of your effort has to be the imposition of your values, then I think equilibrium is not possible.”
Under President Richard Nixon, Kissinger orchestrated the US’ diplomatic outreach to China in the 1970s, a move aimed at prying Beijing away from Moscow and shifting the balance of power in the world away from the communist East.
Under President Joe Biden, the US has watched as China and Russia deepened their trade and diplomatic ties. US policy on Taiwan – with Joe Biden publicly breaking with Washington’s Kissinger-era ambiguity on the island’s independence and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi enraging Beijing with a visit to Taipei earlier this month – has further damaged the US relationship with China and prompted a surge in military activity in the Taiwan Strait.
According to Kissinger, the US is no longer in a position to side with either Russia or China against the other. “All you can do is not to accelerate the tensions and to create options, and for that you have to have some purpose,” he said.
Kissinger is a prominent advocate of the realpolitik school of international relations, which puts the practical interests of nations ahead of ideological stances. His dispassionate view of foreign affairs has earned him enemies as well as praise, however.
Earlier this summer, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky condemned Kissinger for suggesting that Kiev must accept a return to the “status quo ante” – relinquishing its territorial claims to Crimea and granting autonomy to the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics – and seek a peace deal with Russia to prevent a third world war. Kissinger later clarified that these claims should only be temporarily shelved in order to negotiate an immediate ceasefire, but was nevertheless labeled an enemy of Ukraine by Kiev and accused of “spreading narratives of Russian-fascist propaganda and blackmail.”
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A war with Russia would expose our corrupt government to the world in ways that even the most brain dead democrats couldn’t explain away. I’m convinced that one of Satan’s seats of power, resides in DC.
Dying soulless weasel upset that his globalist ideological scions are treating him like an irrelevant old man.
At least he’s been working out.
The Adrenochrome Diet.
That evil vampire is warning us what they have planned
to get us ready to accept more endless war.
The Great Reset doesn’t happen without another world war.
“another world war”
He’s not irrelevant, he’s just the person they trot out to influence people with his name and Khazarian visage, like Chomsky. You don’t think a 99 year old is really writing books and saying anything meaningful?
I mean, he’s not relevant either, it just doesn’t matter. That’s not his purpose.
It’s always funny, to see folks like distinguished war criminal Kissinger bemoan that their own approaches, which is to go mostly principle-free along in politics, is taken to the ultimate conclusion by the complete idiots he helped to raise and put into power, and now is a politics completely principles-free.
It has the feel of ‘the sorcerer’s apprentice’ to it, for Kissinger.
The hard truth about geo-politics , both past and present, from public opinion molders like Kissinger , is there is no truth. The narrative is always fake.
One can only wonder how many baby blood transfusions this cold blooded reptile has had.
Tom Luongo makes the point that the Davos crowd world beaters are at each other’s throats as their schemes fall apart. This would seem to confirm that. Let’s hope so although it is likely to create chaos.
At 99, is he attempting to repent before croaking his last?
All Henry sees is decades of hard work going down the drain and his NWO looking more like a wet dream never to be realized.
This war stance is not over Ukraine or Taiwan. It is a banker war desperate to save the $… When the world stops using the $, we are a bankrupt third world shithole (full of maggots). Russia and China have moved away from the $ and now our criminals want war. We started the war, fund the war and do nothing to stop the war because we are desperate. The USA is near the end of the money printing and false prosperity we have ruled the world with.
When you put mentally deficient people in decision making positions of power, bad shit happens.
I hate myself for making this the 10th comment.
I hate that this Walking Joo Corpse is getting air time here.
I hate that there are some who think this Walking Joo Corpse is/was brilliant.
Are you fucken kidding me???? For example, his retarded idea that America is on the “BRINK” of war with Russia. Does this Irrelevant Joofuk think only “boots on the ground” defines a war? Does this Irrelevant Joofuk think only a Declaration Of War by a corrupt Congress or demented President defines a war? “Brink” my fucken ass! We ARE at war with Russia! Will this Walking Joo Corpse ever grok that? Nope.
We are NOT at war with Russia. We are at war with China and with our own political class owned by China.
Here it comes folks. Three world wars, with the 3rd pitting a coalition of atheists and nihilists against the Christians who will all annihilate each other and create a global crisis so severe it will usher in the reign of Lucifer.
But Albert Pike himself answered to a higher authority as all 33rd degree pedigree do and he was just another Chief Strategy Officer in the 19th century global financial nexus. His statements are today translated as follows – the third world war will pit atheists and nihilists (i.e., communists and psychopaths devoid of morals) versus the Christians (i.e., nationalists constrained by morals) who will annihilate each other (i.e., collapse the very structure of the nation state) and create a global crisis so severe (i.e., total supply chain breakdown including food, water, and energy) it will usher in the reign of Lucifer (i.e., absolute rule by the financial nexus via digital ID and 24/7 surveillance).
Talmudic / Masonic belief is that if one warns their intended victims regarding the crimes one is about to perpetrate, then the perpetrator is absolved from all culpability during the Resurrection and Judgement no matter how heinous the crimes and they will be granted immortality within the post-Apocalypse world. The only stipulation is that these victims be of the uninitiated and the trick becomes how to hide the crimes and the true intentions of the perpetrators through mass media and social pressure. Thus the crimes become a game whereby the challenge is how to not only keep the condemned from resisting the crimes perpetrated against them, but to get them to actively participate in their own demise.
Those who have followed my comments and writings over the last few years know I have been unable to accept the existence of a universal Lord and Savior. But over these same last few years I have become convinced that Satan does indeed exist and he has made his move. It is not however the Satan derived from Hades, the Satan is within all of us and like it was written, it is a human number. So, to defeat Satan we must band together – believer and non-beliver – to destroy those who carry this human number to prevent from being destroyed ourselves. This is how the Christian can reconcile the commission of violence – he is destroying the human number within our ranks carried within those who are beyond redemption. You did this during the first two world wars and called that patriotism, killing those like yourselves who themselves did not carry the number and called it patriotism too, so you can do it before the 3rd world war begins and call it survival.
Ok, that’s fine.
But, the most up-to-date Biblical research has proved beyond any reasonable doubt that “Satan” is a misspelling. The error was made by one of the original King James translators who, it was recently discovered, failed spelling in grammar school, high school, and college.
He added an “a” where it does not belong. The most ancient documents show that “Satan’s” name is actually “Stan”.
Now, I know that saying … “to defeat Stan we must band together” …. doesn’t sound very ominous. Nevertheless, in the interest of truth I must insist you start referring to the The Evil One as “Stan”.
Stan or Nats?
Ever read Holes?
Am here canning tomatoes, squash and peaches.
If you have read the book. I am making Peach butter for my grand baby. Meemaw’s peach schmoosh for baby.
MAGA extremists, Russia and their allies, China and their allies, half the world and half the country have been vilified by Joe the “uniter”.
Maybe I should have put quotes around “extremists “, just wondering who is going to fight “The Big Guys” wars.
It is OK, I self-identify as a right-wing extremist, these days. I wouldn’t want to be confused with a conservative.
I have it from sources-commenters on Brighteon-that the world’s militaries are no match for the US. The Air Force, The Navy, and even the army have stuff and things and other inventory that will “give ’em an uppercut they’ll never forget”. All this in spite of caveats regarding wokeness, the flying turd otherwise known as “its only taxpayer money” AKA the f-35, and the fact that both ccp(uta) and russia have hypersonic missiles. So, if they’re not worried, I’m not worried. I guess…hahaha. I love “homers” as much as I enjoy hopium addicts.
Nobody thought Rome would fall but they did.
Plenty of Romans knew it was failing for a long time.
Can’t believe this Jew demon is still with us unreal
We would all be better off if the Russians nuked DC, New York and Los Angeles.
Kissinger is no saint, but what he is saying is correct. In his day people were not so ignorant as to ignore their own limits. What is really shocking is that his advice is necessary: that USG and NATO are so deluded that they don’t see the necessity of considering both sides of a question.
(((Henry’s))) words is a coded message for the ((( ))) and the golem, and most of all the CuckChristians to implement (((their))) final solution. Dastardly
Kissinger is a Jew who tells lie to goyim slaves… believing him on anything is like kissing your own ass and loving it!