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Kissinger at Davos: At the age of 98, he still understands how the world works better than most of his fellow global elites.
American Thinker ^ | 05/26/2022 | Francis P. Sempa

Posted on 05/26/2022 7:59:53 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

The globalists of the World Economic Forum are meeting at Davos to plan the future world order -- the world’s elites meet there annually to tell the rest of us how we should live our lives under their guidance and tutelage.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke to the would-be philosopher kings (and queens) and received a standing ovation for his courageous defiance of Russian aggression. But the speaker who should have received the greatest applause was Henry Kissinger, who at the age of 98 still understands how the world works better than most of his fellow global elites.

In contrast to Zelensky’s Churchillian rhetoric, Kissinger stated that “Parties should be brought to peace talks within the next two months.” “Ukraine,” he said, “should have been a bridge between Europe and Russia, but now, as the relationships are reshaped, we may enter a space where the dividing line is redrawn and Russia is entirely isolated.” This development, Kissinger warned, was pushing Russia into the arms of China, though he phrased it more delicately -- Russia, he said, will “seek a permanent alliance elsewhere.” Kissinger, after all, was one of the architects of President Nixon’s brilliant policy of exploiting the Sino-Soviet rivalry in the 1970s to America’s benefit.

Kissinger called for a return to the status quo ante in Eastern Europe, not the defeat of Russia. Ukrainians, he said, need to “match the heroism that they have shown in war with wisdom for the balance in Europe and the world at large.” This is Kissinger at his Metternichean best, revisiting old but still valid concepts he wrote about in one of his first books, A World Restored, that analyzed the way early 19th century statesmen reconfigured the balance of power in Europe after the Napoleonic wars.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: davos; kissinger; russia; ukraine
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1 posted on 05/26/2022 7:59:53 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Keep swinging, Henry.


2 posted on 05/26/2022 8:02:37 AM PDT by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: SeekAndFind
I remember the 1970s when Kissinger was in the news every week. I was a kid. Back then he seemed old to me. I'm surprised he's still alive.
3 posted on 05/26/2022 8:06:02 AM PDT by Angelino97
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To: JonPreston

Yea, he’s amazing. And it looks like he went beyond the Western Media, and the Neocons, to find out the REAL CAUSES of this war (hint, nothing to do with Ukraine).


4 posted on 05/26/2022 8:09:49 AM PDT by BobL (Putin isn't sending gays into our schools to groom my children, but anti-Putin people are)
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To: SeekAndFind

Fossil globalist- who engineered the ignoring of Vietnam Veterans left behind from the Paris Peace Talks. He should rot in hell, and will if he has one.

Recall- he refused to participate in the Russia Russia investigation (and thus screwing with Trump’s obvious defense of-— zero truth to it), because—”it would compromise the business client relationships he has with “parties” to the accusation. Meaning the SOB’s relationship with the wrong part of Mossad, Epstein operation and yes, Putinista oligarchs the world over. This a@@ is a fat out of date greedy lying bastard. Nixon knew what he had in this moil.


5 posted on 05/26/2022 8:11:44 AM PDT by John S Mosby ( Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: Angelino97
I was a kid. Back then he seemed old to me. I'm surprised he's still alive.

Adrenechrome is a hell of a drug.

6 posted on 05/26/2022 8:11:47 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: SeekAndFind

Henry knows stuff.


7 posted on 05/26/2022 8:16:56 AM PDT by Leep (Don't say God.)
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To: John S Mosby

For sure! Kissinger is responsible for the murder of millions of people by Pol Pot/Khmner Rouge.


8 posted on 05/26/2022 8:20:31 AM PDT by ryderann
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To: SeekAndFind

How did Elizabeth Holmes fool Kissinger? He was a board member of Theranos, so it seems he didn’t know how that part of the worlded worked.


9 posted on 05/26/2022 8:28:32 AM PDT by Chad_the_Impaler
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To: SeekAndFind

If you ever want a simmering conflict to explode into all out war, Kissinger is your man.


10 posted on 05/26/2022 8:29:01 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: SeekAndFind

Question Kissinger’s moral compass all you like. I’ll join you in that.

His intelligence and his competence however I do not question. Compare him to the imbeciles in the Brandon administration and the Deep State right now. Even at 98, that’s no contest. Kissinger can still run rings around those dunces.


11 posted on 05/26/2022 8:29:20 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: SeekAndFind

Kissinger is what John Mearsheimer called a “19th century thinker.” He didn’t mean it as a slur - he meant that he recognized that other national powers have interests and red-lines as well. Diplomacy (and war) is recognizing those interests, what is negotiable, and what will be fought over.

Its common sense thinking, although it too can become too reactionary.

He contrasts that with post-modern, 20th century ideological thinking - both of marxists, and US neocons. They do not recognize other countries and peoples have interests - for them, it is everything in the service of their ideology.


12 posted on 05/26/2022 8:31:55 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: SeekAndFind

The timing of Kissinger coming forward with his realist perspective coincidently happens just after approval of that $40 billion, which I don’t think was accidental. The corrupt grifters had to have their payoff before conceding that perhaps it might be wiser to negotiate an end to this thing rather than allow it to ramp up and risk the prospect of a nuclear exchange.

They know voters on both the right and left have criticized sending such a huge amount when we have such economic problems at home, with European economies being in an even worse position than us. There’s already indications that some EU leaders are getting wet feet over the decision to cut off Russian energy. It’s hard to say for sure how all of this will play out, but you can probably expect the left to come up with another manufactured crisis in the fall just in time to influence the midterms.


13 posted on 05/26/2022 8:33:09 AM PDT by jimwatx
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To: John S Mosby
This a@@ is a fat out of date greedy lying bastard.

Sgt. Henry A. Kissinger was an arrogant authoritarian from his earliest days. He may have had a God-like working view of global matters but he was no team player.

14 posted on 05/26/2022 8:33:17 AM PDT by frog in a pot (If abortion is the taking of a human life, then under what theory should it be left to the States?)
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To: SeekAndFind

They mention his recent work on the 19th century which I have but have not yet read. It explores territory covered in “Metternich: Strategist and Visionary” by Wolfram Siemann which is one of the best biographies and studies of that era that I have ever read. If they ending of the Napoleonic era and Metternich are at all interesting to anyone, this is a truly dense and wonderful study.

https://www.amazon.com/Metternich-Strategist-Visionary-Wolfram-Siemann/dp/067474392X/ref=sr_1_1?adgrpid=1341404751993770&hvadid=83837868218139&hvbmt=be&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=83826&hvnetw=o&hvqmt=e&hvtargid=kwd-83838145649003%3Aloc-190&hydadcr=15269_10698032&keywords=metternich&qid=1653579434&sr=8-1


15 posted on 05/26/2022 8:42:58 AM PDT by KC Burke (If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
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To: PGR88
He contrasts that with post-modern, 20th century ideological thinking - both of marxists, and US neocons. They do not recognize other countries and peoples have interests - for them, it is everything in the service of their ideology.

Well put.
16 posted on 05/26/2022 8:45:31 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("It's one thing if it's a minor incursion" - Joe Biden)
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To: Sirius Lee

I was just going to say that he probably has that on tap at home.


17 posted on 05/26/2022 8:48:24 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself)
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To: PGR88

The 19th century was Europe being ruled by a bunch of inbred blue-bloods, who all thought alike, didn’t care about the lives or dreams of what they saw as lesser men and were firmly in charge of everything. To pass the time they played their games of wars and machinations.

This is not the world we live in anymore. Theories that *might* explain that world of the past are not so useful anymore.


18 posted on 05/26/2022 8:49:04 AM PDT by Krosan
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The 19th century was Europe being ruled by a bunch of inbred blue-bloods, who all thought alike, didn’t care about the lives or dreams of what they saw as lesser men and were firmly in charge of everything. To pass the time they played their games of wars and inations.

The Congress of Vienna was one of the most successful treaties of all time. It prevented a major war in Europe for 99 years and 19th century Europe was one of the most peaceful and prosperous eras in human history. The industrial revolution, which ended worldwide slavery and serfdom, and brought all the comforts of today, was born during this period.

19 posted on 05/26/2022 9:14:33 AM PDT by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: SeekAndFind

bkmk


20 posted on 05/26/2022 9:31:45 AM PDT by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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