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In a new interview with The Wall Street Journal, immortal Hague fugitive Henry Kissinger says the US is acting in a crazy and irrational way that has brought it to the edge of war with Russia and China:
Mr. Kissinger sees today’s world as verging on a dangerous disequilibrium. “We are at the edge of war with Russia and China on issues which we partly created, without any concept of how this is going to end or what it’s supposed to lead to,” he says. Could the U.S. manage the two adversaries by triangulating between them, as during the Nixon years? He offers no simple prescription. “You can’t just now say we’re going to split them off and turn them against each other. All you can do is not to accelerate the tensions and to create options, and for that you have to have some purpose.”
On the question of Taiwan, Mr. Kissinger worries that the U.S. and China are maneuvering toward a crisis, and he counsels steadiness on Washington’s part. “The policy that was carried out by both parties has produced and allowed the progress of Taiwan into an autonomous democratic entity and has preserved peace between China and the U.S. for 50 years,” he says. “One should be very careful, therefore, in measures that seem to change the basic structure.”
Mr. Kissinger courted controversy earlier this year by suggesting that incautious policies on the part of the U.S. and NATO may have touched off the crisis in Ukraine. He sees no choice but to take Vladimir Putin’s stated security concerns seriously and believes that it was a mistake for NATO to signal to Ukraine that it might eventually join the alliance: “I thought that Poland—all the traditional Western countries that have been part of Western history—were logical members of NATO,” he says. But Ukraine, in his view, is a collection of territories once appended to Russia, which Russians see as their own, even though “some Ukrainians” do not. Stability would be better served by its acting as a buffer between Russia and the West: “I was in favor of the full independence of Ukraine, but I thought its best role was something like Finland.”
Kissinger: “We are at the edge of war with Russia and China on issues which we partly created, without any concept of how this is going to end or what it’s supposed to lead to.” https://t.co/mytxSajU6Q
— Gal Luft (@GalLuft) August 13, 2022
I don’t know about you, but to me this warning is much, much more ominous coming from a bloodsoaked swamp monster than it would be from some anti-imperialist peace activist who was speaking from outside the belly of the imperial machine. This man is a literal war criminal who, as a leading empire manager, helped to unleash unfathomable horrors all around the world the consequences of which are still being felt today.
And as far as you can tell from his own comments, he remains completely unreformed.
“Looking back over his long and often controversial career, however, he is not given to self-criticism,” The Wall Street Journal’s Laura Secor writes.
“I do not torture myself with things we might have done differently,” Kissinger tells her.
So Kissinger remains an unapologetic warmongering psychopath. But if he hasn’t changed as a person, what has? Why is he now cautioning against US aggression and warning that the empire has taken things too far?
Well, if Kissinger hasn’t changed, we can only surmise that it is the US empire itself that has changed. Its behavior is now so insane and illogical that it is making a 99 year-old Henry Kissinger nervous.
Which, if you really think about it, is one of the scariest things you could possibly imagine.
The empire’s departure from the Henry Kissinger iteration of murderous madness to its new form of insanity appears to have begun around the turn of the century, when the influx of neoconservatives into the White House combined with the jingoism which followed 9/11 to usher in an era of interventionism and military expansionism of such brazenness and recklessness that many from the old guard balked.
Kissinger was supportive of the 2003 Iraq invasion, but well before it began he was already saying that he had serious misgivings about the lack of clear thinking and forward planning he was seeing on that front. The neoconservative goal of US planetary hegemony at any cost which led to that invasion (and the planning of many more) has since become the mainstream Beltway consensus perspective on US foreign policy, and it is responsible for the escalations that Kissinger is now warning about.
“The PNAC plan envisions a strategic confrontation with China, and a still greater permanent military presence in every corner of the world,” wrote Michael Parenti in his 2004 book Superpatriotism. “The objective is not just power for its own sake but power to control the world’s natural resources and markets, power to privatize and deregulate the economies of every nation in the world, and power to hoist upon the backs of peoples everywhere — including North America — the blessings of an untrammeled global ‘free market.’ The end goal is to ensure not merely the supremacy of global capitalism as such, but the supremacy of American global capitalism by preventing the emergence of any other potentially competing superpower.”
By “PNAC plan” Parenti means the plans of the neoconservatives behind the notorious Project for the New American Century think tank, whose unipolarist militaristic agendas they explicitly advocated.
Henry Kissinger is warning about the dangers of US warmongering not because he has gotten saner, but because the US war machine has gotten crazier. That we are now hurtling toward confrontations that don’t appear rational to someone who has spent the majority of his life watching the mechanics of empire from inside its inner chambers should concern us all. When you are talking about brinkmanship between major world powers, especially nuclear brinkmanship, the last thing you need is for one of the parties involved to be acting erratically and nonsensically.
We need de-escalation and detente, and we need it yesterday. If you’re too hawkish for Henry Kissinger, you’re too motherfucking hawkish.
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87 responses to “Modern US Warmongering Is Scaring Henry Kissinger”
Yet another good reason to vote for Trump and his allies. Yes, they might all be narcissist greedy buffoons, but they are also the equivalent of pouring sugar into the neo-con global domination engine
Henry Kissinger is a warmonger calling for the US to have peace with Russia and China. He knows they are far more powerful than Cambodia, India etc. He supported the bombing of Cambodia and Laos during the Vietnam War. He supported Pakistan during the Bangladesh War. Pakistan was treating the people in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) badly. India declared war on Pakistan because it was flooded with refugees from Bangladesh .
Russia, and China, are fighting against the globalist elites. It was comforting to hear Putin finally say it out loud. Stand with Russia
I think the globalists are worried that a large number of Americans are going to realize that their values actually align more with Putin’s than the DC Bog-Monsters’
We are being ruled by insane Oligarchs operating behind the U.S. govt and there is NOTHING putting them in check. Our politicians/govt are CLEARLY NOT going to do that. And we do not have access to them or real information on what in the hell they are planning.
What took place when the Covid-19 pandemic was announced was much more than us dealing with a disease. There was a MASSIVE transfer of wealth. TRUTH & SCIENCE WERE BANISHED to the nether regions of communication and those who acted against the establishment narrative in any way were attacked viciously. Doctors were threatened to lose their ability to practice medicine, truckers & THOSE WHO SUPPORTED THEIR EFFORTS via go fund me were threatened and saw their bank accounts frozen, threats against their ability to do business were also levied in the form of threatening to revoke their ability to carry ‘insurance’ as truck drivers. Censorship went even deeper than before while the truth that got through showed that this came from a lab where the disease was created with no clarity as to whether it was leaked accidentally or intentionally. HOW IT WAS USED by those in power has me doubting it was ‘accidental’.
Then actions throughout and now this constant waging of war and willingness to just screw the people of this world over in every way possible.. just points back to the reality that INSANE PEOPLE WITH GREAT POWER are controlling the U.S. govt, military, media etc. and I don’t know that we have any real way of stopping them… I like to tell myself ‘there MUST be a way’… but right now I cannot see it.
“We are being ruled by insane Oligarchs operating behind the U.S. govt and there is NOTHING putting them in check.”
Untrue – the latter part.
What keeps them under control are The Generals, usually functioning out of sight, courtesy of mainstream media non-coverage.
Nothing happens of any strategic military consequence without The Generals say so.
As to who keeps The Generals in check, no one.
On Clemenceau and War. “War is too important to be left to The Generals. When he said that – 50 years ago, he might have been right. But today, War is too important to be left to Politicians. They have neither the time, the training or the inclination for Strategic Thought”. Of course this was about US politicians.
Script piece from the film Dr. Strangelove, 1964.
An often unmentioned aim of the USA’s increased hostility against Russia and China is to prevent the successful construction of China’s New Silk Road, the Belt and Road Initiative, which would commercially link Asia, Europe and Africa by rail, road and sea. And within which Russia would play a supportive role.
By destabilizing Russia from the west (using Ukraine) and harassing China from the east (using Taiwan), requiring their re-direction of financial resources to their military and away from economic development, the USA seeks to maintain its economic and militaristic hegemony as the supreme superpower.
“I was in favor of the full independence of Ukraine, but I thought its best role was something like Finland.”
Says the vicious old war criminal… but Herny Finland is LIKE UKRAINE NOW, NOT TTHE OTHER WAY AND THIS ALL YOUR FUCKING FAULT YOU AND THAT DIRTBALL CRIMINAL NXION, and the rest of you who began this after ww2 , and all your degenerate political progeny..Herny you really make me wish hell is a real place
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Forest. Trees. Forest. Trees. Why write about Kissinger now, when he may be historically famous or infamous or pick your state, but he’s completely irrelevant?
Don’t know if you’ve noticed, but something far more insidious is happening in the States right now. Try to focus.
Irrelevant is absolutely correct!
@Elmer: Don’t know if you’ve noticed that the article was about a NEW interview of Kissinger in the Wall Street Journal. Try to focus.
No one noticed over the last years that the White House does not make American policy anymore but worldwide policies. Just earthquakes, volcanoes and alien invasion at home can make the White House to take a look into the bathroom. Shit everywhere. Still, once you consent the White House to impose unilateral decisions concerning foreign policies you are done.
The geriatrics in charge seem to have clear plans for getting elected but aren’t so interested when it comes to governing. War is more fun for them, they get their pictures taken with generals and puff themselves up by talking tough about Russia and China to fawning reporters. Plus the rich and powerful live in their own world where they never have to admit they are wrong; They can keep doubling down on any bad idea without any trouble from their conscience.
I don’t see how the Ukrainian situation does not devolve into MAD since the most vicious do not fear death (before dishonor?) and might consider mutual annihilation preferable to living with an “other” not dominable.
MAD longer seems to act as a deterrent.
The difference between a war hero and a war criminal is nothing more than a matter of perspective.
Maybe you’d like to think that over again. A war hero, independently from the merit of his cause, is someone who’s shown valiance in fighting, often to protect his own unit, whereas a war criminal can be a bastard on the battle ground (and I don’t care if he tortures someone – who will say anything to get off the hook anyway – to try to prevent attacks, like allegedly in Abu Ghraib) but also just as well a son of a bitch, like Kissinger and most American presidents, ordering atrocities from the comfort of the armchair where he’s resting his fat ass while eating pistachios with his bourbon. Finding heroism in that – even if this paranoiac’s idea is to save the planet from his worst deranged nightmare – is a taunting challenge.
The victors have war heroes, the defeated have war criminals.
Of course I understood that’s what you meant but it’s an over-simplification for the reasons I stated. Even the US didn’t consider the perpetrators of the My Lai Massacre war heroes.
alience ? WTF is “valience? ……you illiterate douchebag
“Valiance” is a word, spelled and used correctly by Pascal, meaning “valor.” It’s sad that you had to misspell a word that you didn’t know existed and apparently arrogantly declined to lookup before being that which you projected on another. Just sayin’ man. WTF, even if Pascal had made some sort of syntactical error, that would have been no cause to call him an illiterate douchebag.
Thanks Gregory. I can’t think of any better illustration than this guy’s comment for the pot calling the kettle black :o)
At least the vile scumbag can no longer travel, because of his indictment by the EU!
Wasn’t he in Davos at the WEF’s last meeting in May?
maybe the coward is safe if he goes only to switzerland?
Sorry to break it to you—but if Brussels had produced an arrest warrant based on an indictment of Henry Kissinger, miraculous as that would be, Kissinger wouldn’t have been at Davos & everyone would be talking about the indictment as opposed to the stir Kissinger created with his remarks at Davos that were recently reiterated within the interview with WSJ.
Just the title was worth the click. I generally don’t like histrionics but they’re actually quite engaging when well done and appropriate. The last two sentences in particular aren’t remotely as extreme as nuclear war.
Kissinger’s most disturbing few words are “you have to have some purpose”. Bloodsoaked rationality is still rationality, and Kissinger retains enough of it to see where it isn’t. Humanity wasn’t ready for gunpowder, much less nuclear weapons. We’re monkey gods. We were lucky to make it this far. Kissinger and his kind should have thought one step further.
I believe Kissinger realizes the US is getting ready to bite off more than it can chew.
The U.S. has already bitten off more than it can chew. It has no solution to the storms it has churned up in Ukraine against Russia and in Taiwan against China. It is driving full speed toward disaster. Nobody knows what’s going on, but the U.S. and NATO are pumping more arms into the conflicts that they have instigated and know nothing about now to stop it and don’t care as long as armaments manufacturers are getting rich.
When I say Kissinger should have thought one step further I mean he should have had a more skeptical view of his obviously naive conception of rational political leadership, particularly coming as he did from Nazi Germany. With the detonation of the first atomic bombs it should have been clear the fun and games needed to stop.
Hubris precedes a great fall. Nuf Said!
Dark Brandon turns Henry Fucking Kissinger into a dove and still hell hasn’t frozen. I know because I live here. In hell I mean.
It’s global warming :o)
https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/charting-the-course
BATTLE FOR THE LARGEST NUCLEAR POWER PLANT IN EUROPE
I saw a rumor that the Russians had erected power transmission infrastructure to reroute the electricity to Crimea, so the Kiev government could no longer sell it on to European buyers, before these attacks began.
https://southfront.org/battle-for-the-largest-nuclear-power-plant-in-europe/
Tulsi Gabbard, Friday night, filling in for Tucker Carlson (“Joe Biden” means “the O-Biden Administration”)
“Europe is in a massive energy crisis right now,” she stated, citing record power prices in France, public lighting cutbacks and impending heating shortages in Germany, and restrictions on home and business energy usage in the UK and Spain
“Why is all this happening?” she continued, before answering: “Because of Joe Biden’s sanctions, which are nothing short of a modern day siege. This is a supply problem that Joe Biden created, one that Russia is now profiting from.”
“It’s not about the people of Ukraine or ‘protecting democracy’,” she declared. “This is about regime change in Russia and exploiting this war to strengthen NATO and feed the military-industrial complex.”
“To Joe Biden, it’s even about bringing about a new world order. ‘We’ve got to lead it,’ he says, and he’s trying to do just that, even if it means bringing us to the brink of nuclear catastrophe.”
https://www.rt.com/news/560785-tulsi-gabbard-biden-regime-change/
I heard a rumor that Russia is aiming a nuke at Tel Aviv and if one ore shell comes near the nuclear power plant they will vapourize Israel
poof
peace on earth
there’s talk about shutting the znpp down entirely for safety reasons. russia doesn’t seem to notice that the us is threatening a nuclear attack on russian soil, eying the russian state and russian territory. imo, russia has to be clear: if major incident happens at the znpp contaminating russia, it will be regarded as a first strike us-nuclear attack to which russia will respond accordingly. if they do not make this clear, the us will be going ahead with the shelling until things blow up, imo.
I think Russia has already made this clear.
yet 42 countries still think they can demand that russia leave the znnp unprotected. they clearly do (pretend to) not understand, imo.
The reporting on this is fascinating. Regardless of source, it could be normally hardhitting truthtellers like Yves Smith at Naked Capitalism or Natali and Clayton Morris at Redacted, or the nonsensical blatherings emanating from CNN or Reuters, or this piece here at Southfront, doesn’t matter, no one is willing to discuss the reality of the situation, or the reality presented by any nuclear power plant that might find itself in “trouble.”
If you loose control of the spent fuel pools, you can no longer remain at the facility. That is the Lesson of Fukushima. The meltdown of the three reactor cores at Fukushima Daiichi was not an existential problem in of itself, it was radiation the meltdowns procuded that made it nearly impossible for the plant’s staff to maintain the cooling function of the pool in Reactor Building 4 (which was cooking off), that became the threat to the existence of nation-state we call Japan – and one that came within hours of being realized.
If the fuel pool in Building 4 had reached a state of criticality, that’s it, everyone must leave at once or die. Either way, dead or alive, all the onsite pools will cook off. The power plant just up the road, Fukushima Daini, similar dimensions, similar fuel pool status, would have to be abandoned within hours, or everybody dies.
Daini’s pools then cook off, or catch fire, and on and on we go down the nuclear power plant “chain” on the island of Honshu and before you know it, losing Japan would be the least of our worries, because we’ve got a real crisis on our hands.
Note: Yes, you would probably have to use nukes to blast apart the containment structures that house the reactor cores, but the fuel pools? It would take more than hand grenade to set “world changing events” in motion, I think, but not all that much more that.
I’ve been writing about this scenario since 6 months after Fukushima crisis, when the Official Narrative of the event became firmly established. I’ve told the tale of the Official Narrative of Fukushima hundreds of times since, ALWAYS to deafening silence.
Fukushima is the one Official Narrative in all of human history that has no conspiracy theories attached to it, nor any advocates of it either.
Ain’t that something?
Big Oil, Big Coal, Big Wind and Solar, Big Chemical, Big Finance, Big Pharma, Big New World Order, they all have their detractors. But Big Nuke? EVERYBODY loves Big Nuke.
Don’t fret, Max; George Moonbat says radiation doesn’t pose a danger!
For healthy bones, eat Uranium and Plutonium for breakfast, lunch and dinner!
@John Day: Is it the same Tulsi Gabbard who endorsed Joe Biden because “he has a good heart”?
@Max: As the only expert in the world who’s grasped the true nature of the danger for so long, I think you should send Zelensky and Biden an email.
Alternatively, an aphorism by Michel de Montaigne is worth meditating IMHO: “I’ve suffered a lot in my life of things that never happened”.
Don’t need to be an expert Pascal. A kindergarten level education would suffice. And as for things that never happended, are you saying the Fukushima crisis never happened?
I kinda hope so, because it would be the first conspiracy theory about the event I’ve run into.
Pretending this is JOE BIDEN’s doing is foolish though.
The U.S. is RULED by INSANE Oligarchs and that doesn’t change with presidential candidates.
I remember the European military theater in late 80s at its apex. Around two millions of NATO troops ready to fight and around five millions of Russian troops ready to fight. A permanent military presence in Europe at that time represented a huge public budget wasted in war games instead of more productive things and investments in each one of those countries who also drained public resources from their respective modern “colonies” managed by local mafias backed up by local MSM to keep them aligned to the bosses in America and Europe. In late 90s a lot changed and it was a matter of time to America and Europe to go in bankruptcy in the lapse of time necessary to adjust economies. Wars was the answer to hold the tabs. NATO crushing Yugoslavia played perhaps the most important role of all. The “rebels” rom Albania, Kosovo, Moldova, Croatia got an offer to stir up the European scenario. At the end, it not succeed as expected but it accomplished an important task – people willing to sign up to work for CIA and MI6 in terrorist organizations sponsored by the US and UK. There was a political meeting in late 90s where Bill Clinton, Tony Blair and Fernando H. Cardozo settle up the neoliberal agenda for the coming XXI century. One can say Cardozo – who wrote the Dependency theory in his PhD thesis – was also the father of the neoliberal bible. Presidents, kings, PM just managed the agenda. Eric Hobsbawm wrote essays trying to describe how it would unfold in the real world. Turns out today we can say Cardozo was wrong and Hobsbawm right. But the future new world liberal order under the US empire had to happen at any cost for them. The orchestration of the 9/11 theater was necessary to pull the trigger far beyond the Balkans. The rest you already know.
Let’s try to make an experiment. Each one of you will create a permanent blog on the internet. Your main headline will be just one motto – “Independence, Health and Education for All” instead of Weapons of Mass Destruction. Every time you publish something, you will use your motto. Are you going to talk with your friends? Don’t forget to use your motto. it’s Pavlov, of course, and his studies with animals and repetitions. CIA strategists love Pavlov.
Moldova is located between Romania and Ukraine and was in no way involved in the Yugoslav rebellions of the 90s. Didn’t you mean Bosnia and/or Serbia instead?
I named countries where people signed up to have a terrorist job. Moldova as a country was not involved in setting up Yugoslavia to fall but it does not mean some people from there have not discovered a new purpose in life working as terrorists for CIA. Terrorists are one of the main sources of incoming for Moldova. Are you sure you understood what I mean? Thank you for your comment.
I’ve never heard that terrorists were one of the main sources of income for Moldova. I’ve heard there’s mafia crime and corruption and also there’s been fights over Transnistria but I didn’t find anything about terrorism. Do you have a source to back your claim that “terrorists are one of the main sources of incoming for Moldova”?
You should pay a visit to Moldova while it is possible. Nothing can replace a real experience in the front. Ask Aaron Mate about the meaning of a short experience in Syria to backup what was not possible to read anywhere else. Perhaps you can be the author of something new that people were unaware of. Fame and economic suicidal is the path for the truth. You already is smart enough to make it. Just a little push in the real world is what is missing. I had my diplomatic experience in all Eastern Europe. I promise to reveal myself for you when you publish your book about Moldova.
Yet another troll then
Yes, Kissinger has a baggage of wrong doing on his back but at least his conscience is pointing him in the right direction. Unlike the buffoons who occupy the dementia ward that is the WH who don’t know which shoe is for which side, HK together with RR were smart enough to avoid engaging the USSR/Cuban-backed Angola government who were fighting Jonas Savimbi’s UNITA in the 70’s. They calculated the risks and ditched the apartheid-backed Savimbi and thus avoided a wider bloodbath and a possible superpowers war. It can’t be just brinkmanship on the part of the current crop of US rulers, it is dangerous idiocy and thuggery which can only lead to a rapid demise of the empire. One wonders why the US masses are so powerless to do something instead of thinking that the midterms voting will rid them of the menace that the current administration is to all of us across the globe. All the talking and anger that is only on TV won’t do any good to save the planet.
it’s not his conscience, imo.
The US ruling classes were only able to avoid becoming ensnared in Angola, thanks to tough investigative reporting at the time by the US media. Unfortunately, this non-involvement gave rise to the mythology among the left that another 20th century scumbag, Fidel Castro, helped to end apartheid!
Fidel Castro was NOT a scumbag.
What is your problem, lady?
You produced a nasty epithet without providing foundation. You are entitled to your opinion of Castro, but it remains that millions of people found him to be at least a sympathetic figure if not a wholly admirable one.
… and there was that visit of nelson mandela in 1991.
Yes, Fidel was very good at pretending to be the leader of the non-Aligned Movement, while his country was mortgaged wholly to the USSR.
https://thewire.in/world/nelson-mandela-said-viva-fidel
I have all respect for Fidel and all people from Cuba. It takes a lot of resolve to make a stand against the US empire isolated from the rest of the world. Venezuela has my respect. Who among these keyboard warriors coming here has the guts to commit economic suicide in order to strike the empire like Daniel Hale, Assange, Manning? Even CJ and Tim don’t have the guts. Once I even had a thought of paying form my wallet a worldwide trip for both in order to give a little push in their narrow perspective about some topics. But you cannot make boneheads become smart overnight. Anthony Bourdain opinion is no different from any pretending wise keyboard warrior here or Milosevic was really the bad guy and for once the MSM did the right thing? How cute, isn’t? LOL
Moral progression is the myth that keeps us from taking direct action against our ruling classes. Next time leave such juvenile liberalisms out.
All wars are fought over power: but power is an illusion. And every empire in history has eventually faced the war it was trying to avoid – its own destruction. Now, it seems, we are faced with WW III.
https://patternofhistory.wordpress.com/
The Grim Reaper is afraid of warmongering. Sorry but this has some kind of dark humour vibe to it. The US has been in a torrent of violence and wormongering since its conception.
Should it not ease our anxiety about nuclear world war that US allies are going along with whatever plans the US empire has for the future of the world? Should they not be as fearful as we are and consequently oppose the US from its hegemonic dreams?
is it hawkish to encourage a monster to destroy itself?
Kissinger sold his soul for unipolar dominance, he wants a legacy of success for his team’s project. His caution to me is a sign that the west is backed into a corner and at a real risk of escalating into something it cannot recover from.
Bloodthirsty powerhungry elements inside the deep state must sense this too. An environment of accelerated collapse is one they can more easily twist towards their interests. When Kissinger advocates restraint, it is because he realizes his team’s position of relative weakness.
How to dismantle this empire with a minimum loss of life? Even if China / Russia / Iran were omnipotent bloc, it would still require support from within the current empire. A time for patriots to take difficult steps.
I genuinely wish that someone would, in the case of the Kissinger swine, accomplish what Hitler was, in this instance, unfortunately not able to achieve.
I knew you were a Nazi. Pardon me while I vomit.
Kissinger and castro lovers really don’t belong here, ma’am.
Well, I would advocate Justice over Murder. And I’m firmly against the death penalty.
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Your take on “what belongs here” really doesn’t belong here.
Well Kissinger murdered at least 30,000 folks in the Southern Cone, and I think the jury is still out on the number of Cubans executed by Fidel.
With all due respect to the authors, this site is a magnet for antisemites and conspiracy nuts.
…and we even get a shill or two for Pfizer—just like on TV!
That’s right, I’m a spy for the deep state/big pharma/Joos and I’m hiding under your bed. Don’t fall asleep or I’ll getcha!
I’m not worried about you John. But I do note your penchant for the mischaracterization of comments or commentators—full of rage or paranoia, or whatever. Trolling 101.
Your unswerving and total promotion of the clot shots is obviously something I completely disagree with. I don’t know who you are and what your motivation is, but you clearly evade and ignore the evidence & content of comments that challenge that promotion. Keep up the good work.
Henry Kissinger is the contemporary iteration of Pol Pot and Hitler combined. It is very difficult to consider the views of a psychopathic monster seriously, yet Kissinger in his current views unfortunately makes sense. Listen to him and also, lock him up.
Another example of the swine’s psychopathy: It’s not very well known, but Kissinger’s name was found in Jeffrey Epstein’s “little black book”!
Not surprised. He said once that power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
He certainly didn’t attract women by virtue of his vile looks! LOL
I concur with locking him up!
“From madness to insanity is but a step.” Who said that, Napoleon?
No, Napoleon said “From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a stop” on a sleigh ride home from Moscow while disuised as a woman.
– Not that there is anything wrong with that! You anti-wokesters you. –
Still, one has to wonder, why it is taking so long for folks to figure out it is not a good idea to take on Russia in a Game of Death. This stupid idea goes back Charles the 12th and his ill-fated Russian adventure in 1707, at least.
As for Cambodia, I wonder what China’s plans are for the place. Are they going to bomb it back to the Stone Age? Oh, surprise to surprise, they plan to link it up by high speed rail with other victims of Henry K’s Operation Linebacker II.
https://photos.smugmug.com/Future-Southeast-Asia/Railways/Railway-Maps/i-vnWW2CR/0/1a730351/O/economic-corridor-routes.png
And its forbearer Linebacker I as well, which was essentially the same idea, pound the enemy with our B-52s, and if we end pounding millions of non-combatants in the process, so be it.
“War is hell.” Who said that. Genghis?
Speaking of how quick the transposition from madness to insanity can be, the Russians are shelling the Ukraine nuclear power plant they are operating. This is madness. But the Ukrainians, by order of President Zelensky, are shelling the Russians while they shell the plant, and this is insanity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pE3XkV5tC4M
At least in my opinion. Perhaps I am out of touch, and this is considered normal behavior?
I mean, if you shell the Russians while they shell the plant, wouldn’t it make more likely that Russian artillery gunners would make a critical mistake, and instead of let’s say, striking their own headquarters and wiping out their command structure with one well aimed salvo, instead might misfire and hit a spent fuel pool, and take out everybody, including the shellers and the shelled alike, on both sides?
Either way and needless to say, shells are raining down at Zaporizhzhia, like raindrops from the afterlife.
The source is Reuters. Why would the Russians shell a nuclear facility that they control? They wouldn’t. Why would deranged Nazis shell it and blame Russia?
The answer to your second question is found within the question.
You can be forgiven for taking Max’s comment too literally if you haven’t followed many of his earlier comments on other threads. Of course Russia isn’t shelling the facility and Max knows that. What Max is deftly accomplishing to expose the insanity of what Zelensky, within his own narrative, proposes.
Thanks Gregory.
I chalked this one up to either a misread or as a result of my own inadequate writing skills. All good, either way.
Pascal, oth, parsing my take on madness and insansity? Of course there isn’t a difference, and if there was, what difference would it make?
1/ I don’t know where you read that Napoleon came back from Moscow on a sleigh disguised as a woman but that never happened.
I ain’t saying his retreat wasn’t disastrous (it’s become proverbial: when French people say “it’s the Berezina”, it means all is lost) but there’s a limit to extravagance :o)
2/ It wasn’t him who said “from the sublime to the ridiculous, it is only one step” but Fontenelle, a writer from the Age of Enlightenment – essentially remembered because he lived 100 years (1657-1757)) in ’em days when Big Pharma tells us the average lifespan was 40 years – who added “from raillery to insult, there is even less”.
As for “from madness to insanity is but a step”, since I can’t see any difference between those two, I surmise you meant “from genius to insanity is but a step”, a notion going all the way back to Antiquity with Aristotle saying: “There is no great genius without a touch of madness.” Which is actually less than a step, a component.
Closer to us, Salvador Dali said: “There is only one difference between a madman and me: the madman thinks he’s sane while I know I am mad”.
Try Googling the phrase. Napolean seems to get the credit by a wide margin, and the sleigh ride is in Will and Ariel Durant’s Age of Napolean. I think he was in either Prussia or Poland when he switched garbs.
But it could be an urban legend, I admit, and the Durandt team reported it as such. It been 30 years since I read it.
“The empire’s departure from the Henry Kissinger iteration of murderous madness to its new form of insanity …”
Just riffing for fun on line by our host.