KISSINGER ON UKRAINE—“END THIS WAR NOW!”

 MAY 23, 2022– DAVOS, SWITZERLAND

Finally, some common sense on Ukraine, coming from a 98 year old member of the “Great Generation”.  

Henry Kissinger the elderly, veteran, US statesman, diplomat, Nobel Peace Prize Winner, active in foreign policy as Secretary of State, and Foreign Policy Advisor 1969-1977 …gave a much needed- “Uncle Henry”—speech to the gathering of European leaders in DAVOS Switzerland yesterday.  Kissinger stated that the disastrous War in Ukraine must end quickly in the next few months.  Russia has been a key element of Europe for 400 years and must not be driven into the arms of the Chinese. Ukraine can not be a military outpost of the west. Long term stability for Europe, requires that Ukraine remain as a “boundary nation” which must give in, both in terms of land area and political considerations to certain Russian demands. 

It has been clear for months now that the so-called “progressive” statesmen and women, in Germany, France, Italy and Brussels have abandoned economic reality and practical politics as they permitted themselves and their nations to be dragged into a monstrous foreign policy, an economic catastrophe, and a Cold War quagmire precipitated by, sustained and expanded by the USA and Ukraine. 

Both the USA and Ukraine, recklessly ignored the diplomatic pleas from the Russians, the threats of war, then the build up of troops. Rather than work to diplomatically defuse the threat, they  dangerously and irresponsibly used and manipulated the conflict to advance their own domestic agendas.  In the USA, the Ukraine War became for the Biden Administration, a useful distraction for the President’s falling popularity, and for his“green” policies which initiated spikes in petrol prices and then wider inflation, as well as a shield for the general blundering incompetence of the Biden team.  In the Ukraine, the people elected a novice politician, who suffers from delusions of imperium and whose only experience was as a TV actor “who ‘played president’” in a popular TV series. Zelensky does have a notable genius for self-aggrandizement, but is a rookie-nitwit as a national leader, who promoted and exacerbated a deadly war, and a world wide economic a disaster.  In the Ukraine, Zelensky’s  polices have caused the deaths of thousands of Ukrainians and created millions of refugees. His nation’s economy and infrastructure are in tatters. He should be impeached and tried for political malpractice. 

These two derelict leaders, Biden and Zelensky, both on the lower rungs of intelligence and ability,  hoodwinked and led more experienced, younger, and wiser EU politicians, using threats, financial inducements and a coordinated anti-Russian media frenzy which drove the world into a terrible economic disaster and to the brink of nuclear war.  The EU leadership disappointed us all by following lemming like, the urgings of these two incompetent heads of state.  How could the intellectuals, and political sophisticates in Paris, Berlin, Rome and Brussels be so weak, gullible and malleable?  How could they so desperately fail in their sworn duty to the welfare of their own citizens?

In regard to the US Congress I can offer no defense for their behavior—where recently stupidity is the rule not the exception. 

But one must thank Henry Kissinger—the 98 year old adult in the room—for presenting the actual dire reality of the Ukraine situation.