Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger © Jason Lee / Reuters
RT: Kissinger:‘Breaking Russia has become objective for US’
Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has hit out at American and European Ukraine policy, saying it ignores Russia’s relationship with its neighbor, and has called for cooperation between the White House and the Kremlin on the issue.
“Breaking Russia has become an objective [for US officials] the long-range purpose should be to integrate it,” the 92-year-old told The National Interest in a lengthy interview for the policy magazine’s anniversary that touched on most of the world’s most pertinent international issues. “If we treat Russia seriously as a great power, we need at an early stage to determine whether their concerns can be reconciled with our necessities.”
Update: Henry Kissinger warns West to not alienate Russia -- UPI
WNU Editor: The interview with Henry Kissinger is here .... The Interview: Henry Kissinger (National Interest). A fascinating interview .... and I have never been a Henry Kisinger fan. As to the possibility of breaking Russia .... it is as realistic as Russia breaking the United States.
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Heraclius did marry off his granddaughter to a Sassanian Persian King.
Just saying.
Breaking Russian is the American objective with Obama the Nobel Peace Prize winner in charge of U.S. policy?
It makes sense in a self serving, cynical, hypocritical world. Maybe, it makes sense in some other way.
Mr. Kissinger has a track-record that paints him as quite a competent politician, but certainly not as the role-model of a dove.
The "erosion" and "destabilisation" of russias periphery is not a new strategy. Mr. Brzezinski advocated this approach for decades - and the US played the "global chessboard" accordingly.
With Mr. Kissinger criticising this strategy in public, it seems like someone grasped the fact that russias strategic intentions are (at the moment) largely defensive in nature, and thus much less of a threat to the US than other entities, with significantly more offensive, hostile or lunatic intentions.
To re-establish a cold-war posture (in force-structure and procurement) would simply break the back of the US financial resources and further cripple maintainance
of existing systems and much needed replacement of equpment that has reached its projected life-span.
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