Kissinger: “a war against Russia” and “not a war about the freedom of Ukraine”
Henry Kissinger with the then German chancellor Angela Merkel on June 21, 2017. It seems that they were both far wiser than today’s US/NATO/EU leaders.
First of all, let’s make one thing clear. We don’t support the Russian invasion in Ukraine. We don’t support the invasion of any country by any country. We don’t support war. We don’t support aggressive military alliances. We don’t believe that war ever solves problems. It only creates more.
Once we made that clear, we would like to ask a couple of questions. Who provoked this war. How did this war start?
In our view, this war would not have happened if the USA did not interfere absolutely everywhere across Europe (including Ukraine and Ukrainian politics) and the entire world and was not using NATO to practically create a world empire.
This has been happening for as far as I can remember in my life and my age permits me to remember fairly long. I don’t suppose many of you are aware, for example, that napalm bombs were first used by USA forces in Greece in the 1940s when they intervened in order to keep in power an oppressive regime of their own liking.
Demonising Putin and Russia doesn’t explain or solve the problem. The ones that are trying to be hegemonic over the entire world are the USA/NATO, not the Russians.
The Russians and the Chinese are just reacting to that and the Russians have reacted wrongly. In fact, that’s what the USA wanted in the first place. Divide and rule.
After the collapse of the USSR, the USA tried to dominate Russia, which is a rich country, and exploit its resources. To some extent they were succeeding during the Boris Yeltsin years. In fact, the USA even supported Putin as Yeltsin’s foreign secretary and later as his successor.
Unexpectedly, Putin put an end to that regime. That was when the USA started losing control of Russia and that’s of the essence of the current problem.
Also, the USA make unilateral decisions about sanctions and expect to force all other countries to conform. Forcing other countries to follow their sanctions is contrary to the most basic principles of International Law.
Only the United Nations, through the right procedures, have the right to impose sanctions which would be binding on member states.
The war in Ukraine is not really for the independence and territorial integrity of Ukraine and cannot be expected to lead to that. Neither Russia nor the USA/NATO want to admit it but this is clearly a war between the Russian Federation (and potentially it’s whatever allies) and the USA/NATO by proxy.
Superpowers have created nuclear weapons to blackmail the rest of the world. You don’t suppose that Russia, whose nuclear capabilities are roughly comparable with those of the USA, is going to allow itself to be beaten by Ukraine.
The parallel economic war, which has exceeded every precedent in the history of world conflict is already ruining our economies and our lives.
The war in Ukraine is the product of economic/hegemonic antagonisms between superpowers. If not stopped, it could lead to a world war and a nuclear holocaust.
If you don’t wish to listen to me, listen to what the late Henry Kissinger, the supreme brain of USA diplomacy had said.
“Veteran US statesman Henry Kissinger has urged the West to stop trying to inflict a crushing defeat on Russian forces in Ukraine, warning that it would have disastrous consequences for the long term stability of Europe”. (Daily Telegraph, 23-04-2022).
Henry Kissinger also warned: ““Negotiations need to begin in the next two months before it creates upheavals and tensions that will not be easily overcome”.
Kissinger was very clear and his stern warning still stands. “Ideally, the dividing line should be a return to the status quo ante. Pursuing the war beyond that point would not be about the freedom of Ukraine, but a new war against Russia itself.”
Unfortunately, Henry Kissinger’s warning has not been listened to and we are still on the same dangerous road.
I think the situation globally has gone beyond negotiation. The powers have lost sight of any purpose and the future is bleak. As a parent, I hate to admit that the future generation does not have much hope of any kind.