It's Time for a Negotiated Peace in Ukraine, Kissinger Says
Sunday, 18 December 2022 01:39 PM EST
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/henry-kissinger-ukraine/2022/12/18/id/1100952/
Veteran U.S. diplomat Henry Kissinger said the time is approaching for a
negotiated peace in Ukraine to reduce the risk of another devastating world
war, but the Kyiv government dismissed his comments as amounting to
"appeasing the aggressor" and said there could be no deal involving
ceding territory.
Kissinger, 99, and an architect of the Cold War policy of
detente towards the Soviet Union as secretary of state under Republican
presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, has met Russia's Vladimir Putin multiple times
since he first became president in 2000.
There is no end in sight to the conflict sparked by
Putin's Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine, which has killed tens of thousands of
people and driven millions from their homes. Russia now controls around a fifth of Ukraine.
The Kremlin says Kyiv must acknowledge Moscow's
annexation of southern and eastern regions. Ukraine says every Russian soldier
must leave its territory, including Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014. Kyiv
applied to join NATO after Moscow announced the later annexations in September.
"The time is approaching to build on the strategic
changes which have already been accomplished and to integrate them into a new
structure towards achieving peace through negotiation," Kissinger wrote in
The Spectator magazine.
"A peace process should link Ukraine to NATO,
however expressed. The alternative of neutrality is no longer meaningful,"
Kissinger wrote.
Kissinger said that in May he had proposed a ceasefire
under which Russia would withdraw to the front lines before the February
invasion but Crimea would be the subject of "negotiation."
The conflict in eastern Ukraine began in 2014 after a
pro-Russian president was toppled in Ukraine and Russia annexed Crimea, with
Russian-backed separatists fighting Ukraine's armed forces in eastern Ukraine.
"Mr. Kissinger still has not understood anything ...
neither the nature of this war, nor its impact on the world order,"
Ukrainian presidential aide Mykhailo Podolyak said on Telegram.
"The prescription that the ex-Secretary of State
calls for, but is afraid to say out loud, is simple: appease the aggressor by
sacrificing parts of Ukraine with guarantees of non-aggression against the
other states of Eastern Europe."
He added, "All supporters of simple solutions should
remember the obvious: any agreement with the devil - a bad peace at the expense
of Ukrainian territories - will be a victory for Putin and a recipe for success
for autocrats around the world."
Kremlin officials were not available for comment late on
Sunday.
Aaron David Miller, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment think tank,
also dismissed Kissinger's proposal, saying in a Twitter post:
"Henry Kissinger calls for cease-fire along borders
pre war 2/24 with Russia disgorging its conquests and negotiations on territory
seized in 2014. What Kissinger doesn’t allow for are politics on both sides
making this idea impossible now, maybe never."
CIA Director William
Burns said in an interview published on Saturday that while most
conflicts end in negotiation, the CIA's assessment was Russia was not serious
yet about a real negotiation to end the war.
Putin casts what he calls Russia's "special military
operation" as a watershed moment when Russia finally stood up to a Western
bloc, led by the United States, seeking to capitalize on the 1991 fall of the Soviet
Union by destroying Russia.
Ukraine and the West say Putin has no justification for
what they say is an imperial-style war of occupation.
Kissinger warned that desires to render Russia
"impotent," or even seek the dissolution of Russia, could unleash
chaos. Neither Ukraine nor any Western state has advocated either path.
Connecting the Dots:
Vladimir Putin is
the president of Russia and was a lieutenant colonel for
the KGB.
KGB was
a security agency for the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).
Russia was
a part of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) republic.
Joseph Stalin was
the premier for the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and
attended the Yalta Conference.
Alger
Hiss attended the Yalta Conference with Franklin
Delano Roosevelt (FDR) and was the president of the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank).
William J. Burns is
the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think
tank) and was a U.S. ambassador for Russia.
James F. Collins was
a U.S. ambassador for Russia and is a senior associate at the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank).
Foundation to Promote Open Society was
a funder for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank).
George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation
to Promote Open Society.
Jon M. Huntsman
Jr. is a trustee at the Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace (think tank) and was an ambassador to China for
the Barack Obama administration.
J. Stapleton Roy was
a U.S. ambassador for China and a vice chairman for Kissinger
Associates, Inc.
Brent Scowcroft was
a vice chairman for Kissinger Associates, Inc., is a friend
of Henry A. Kissinger and a trustee at the Center for
Strategic and International Studies (think tank).
Henry
A. Kissinger is the founder of Kissinger Associates, Inc.
a trustee at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (think
tank), a friend of Brent Scowcroft, and was a
lifetime trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank).
Foundation to Promote Open Society was
a funder for the Aspen Institute (think tank) and the International
Rescue Committee.
George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation
to Promote Open Society.
Timothy F.
Geithner is an overseer, director for the International Rescue
Committee, was a researcher at Kissinger Associates, Inc., and the
secretary at the U.S. Department of the Treasury for the Barack
Obama administration.
Jon M. Huntsman
Jr. was an ambassador to China for the Barack
Obama administration and is a trustee at the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace (think tank).
Foundation to Promote Open Society was
a funder for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank).
George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation
to Promote Open Society.
William J. Burns is
the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think
tank) and was a U.S. ambassador for Russia.
Resources: Past
Research
Russia to Ukraine:
Surrender Crimean Forces or Face 'Military Storm'
MONDAY, MARCH 3, 2014
https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2014/03/russia-to-ukraine-surrender-crimean.html
Kissinger Warns of
Putin Using Nuclear Weapons in Ukraine (Is the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace planning World War 3? More Population Control?) (Past Research on the Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace & Henry Kissinger)
SUNDAY, MAY 8, 2022
https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2022/05/kissinger-warns-of-putin-using-nuclear.html
Alger Hiss - New Deal (Past Research on Henry Kissinger, Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace (think tank) & the USSR)
FRIDAY, MAY 30, 2014
https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2014/05/alger-hiss-new-deal.html
Kissinger Doesn’t See
China Invasion of Taiwan in Next Decade (Past
Research on Henry Kissinger)
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2021
https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2021/11/kissinger-doesnt-see-china-invasion-of.html
Trump’s Secretary of
Commerce Wilbur Ross the ‘Champion of American Manufacturing’ (Past Research on Kissinger Associates, Inc.)
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2016
https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2016/12/trumps-secretary-of-commerce-wilbur.html
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