Monday, December 19, 2022

Smaller Bites – Henry Kissinger (Connecting the Dots: Henry Kissinger, Kissinger Associates, Inc, Russia, Vladimir Putin, Carnegie Endowment, William Burns & Soros Funding, All Networking)

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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