Kissinger is the leader in the background of american politics for the last 30 years.
Um. Okay. If Stanley Kubrick says so I guess is must be true.
Russia must accept that to try to force Ukraine into a satellite status, and thereby move Russia’s borders again, would doom Moscow to repeat its history of self-fulfilling cycles of reciprocal pressures with Europe and the United States.
The West must understand that, to Russia, Ukraine can never be just a foreign country.
For the West, the demonization of Vladimir Putin is not a policy; it is an alibi for the absence of one.
1. Ukraine should have the right to choose freely its economic and political associations, including with Europe.
2. Ukraine should not join NATO, a position I took seven years ago, when it last came up.
3. Ukraine should be free to create any government compatible with the expressed will of its people.
4. It is incompatible with the rules of the existing world order for Russia to annex Crimea. But it should be possible to put Crimea’s relationship to Ukraine on a less fraught basis.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/henry-kissinger-to-settle-the-uk...
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Though if you watch the footage from the Al Smith dinner (and I highly recommend it) there was Strangelove, in the background eating supper:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnRVAzFa6Og
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kA2m4jrZJeY