Henry Kissinger: for some, he is a war
criminal and should therefore never be given a platform to
express his opinions; for others, the advice of the former Secretary
of State and former mentor of Klaus Schwab
(the WEF’s founder and president) is
too important to be overlooked – and should therefore be heeded all
ears open – because of his connections and first-hand experience in
geopolitics. For my part, I even suspect
that Henry Kissinger might have been one of the 300 hundred men who are pulling the strings behind the scenes
which the German industrialist and
Foreign Minister (for a few months) Walter
Rathenau wrote about in the edition of 25th
December 1909 of Neue Freie
Presse (Vienna): ‘Dreihundert
Männer,
von denen jeder jeden kennt, leiten die wirtschaftlichen Geschicke
des Kontinents …’ (bottom
right column, a few lines before the end of the first section
entitled ‘Unser
Nachwuchs’) [‘Three hundred men,
each of whom knows the others, direct the economic fate of the
continent …’]. So Mr Kissinger’s
warning
that the USA, by August, will have to decide whether or not to
enter into direct confrontation with Russia
over Ukraine
should send shivers down the spines of most Europeans, North
Americans, etc. – the more so as hostilities in
WWI really started in August 1914 (https://www.britannica.com/topic/Battle-of-the-Frontiers-1914).
Let us pray that this does not come to be – especially since Boris Johnson, the Russophobe, will, CURIOUSLY, step down only in November of this year and the Democrats need to deflect the attention from the catastrophic economic decisions made by the Biden administration and the corruption and debauchery of the president’s son, Hunter Biden.
It looks a little like World War
I: Former Secretary of State
9 July 2022 - 6:38 - Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger discusses his latest book ‘Leadership’ and the current situation in Ukraine on ‘Special Report.’
https://video.foxnews.com/v/6309303340112#sp=show-clips
9 July 2022 - 6:38 - Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger discusses his latest book ‘Leadership’ and the current situation in Ukraine on ‘Special Report.’
https://video.foxnews.com/v/6309303340112#sp=show-clips
TRANSCRIPT
Bret
Baier
Nobel Prize winner scholar, national security expert Doctor Henry Kissinger. His latest book, Leadership: six studies in world strategy. Doctor Kissinger, it’s great to see you.
Henry Kissinger
Good to be with you.
Bret Baier
I want to talk about your book specifically, but I’d love to get your thoughts on the world today while we have you here and specifically what’s happening in Ukraine and Russia. How do you see that tonight?
Henry Kissinger
Russia has taken about 15% of the territory of Ukraine and the line for the moment is militarily stabilised. And it looks a little bit like [a] World War One type situation in which both sides are spending part of the summer reinforcing their position. We have added uh advanced American weapons; the Russians are undoubtedly reinforcing their ground forces, so we may be seeing two offensives going on simultaneously. If Russia is defeated, there is a danger of escalation. But from …any … the point of view of America, Russia cannot keep the territory it has conquered in this offensive without shaking the foundations of NATO. So it … it’s a battle which we should not, we cannot afford to lose.
Bret Baier
And how do you think it ends?
Henry Kissinger
Well, right now it looks like a stalemate, but that’s because both sides seem to be re-arming for the battle; but it will occur, I would think, no later than August. And then big decisions will have to be … to be made.
Bret Baier
Your book is called Leadership and in it you see the axes of leadership: [Bret Baier reads out an excerpt from the book] ‘Leaders think and act at the intersection of two axes: the first between the past and the future; the second between the abiding values and aspirations of those they lead.’ And you’ve done six studies in world strategy where you look at different leaders [the nouns humility, will, equilibrium, excellence, transcendence and conviction are displayed on the screen] and their different ways of dealing with this. Tell us about this book and the premise behind it.
Henry Kissinger
I thought that if I took six leaders that I’ve had an opportunity to observe, and who made a big difference in their impact on their societies [the names of Adenauer, de Gaulle, Nixon, Sadat, Lee Kuan Yew, Thatcher are displayed on the screen], it would be easier to understand what the essential component of leadership is – which is to move from the world that is familiar, that is, the past and the present, into a world that one has not yet experienced. And for that one needs vision and courage and some faith.
Bret Baier
[The quality attributed to each politician is displayed on the screen: Konrad Adenauer: humility; Charles de Gaulle: will; Richard Nixon: equilibrium; Anwar Sadat: transcendence; Lee Kuan Yew: excellence; Thatcher: courage.]
The leaders all deal in different ways, in the studies: humility, will, equilibrium transcendence, excellence and conviction. Anwar Sadat, the strategy of transcendence: [Bret Baier reads out an excerpt from the book] ‘Anwar Sadat is best known for the peace treaty with Israel that he brought to Egypt. His ultimate design, however, was not a peace treaty, great though that achievement was, but a historic modification in Egypt’s pattern of being a new order in the Middle East as a contribution to peace in the world.’
Henry Kissinger
When he came to peacemaking, he went beyond the normal diplomatic discussions and he tried to find principles that applied to all sides and that each of the countries could embrace. One of his symbolic gestures was a visit to Jerusalem, in which he visited a country that had not been recognised by any of the neighbours and in [with] which the neighbours were very reluctant to engage in any dialogue. And he went to Jerusalem and he said: ‘I don’t want to solve the following problems and listed all the problems.’ He said: ‘I want to get a new vision in which the two sides never think of each other as … as enemies and in which no mothers have to worry about the future of their sons.’ That was a heroic gesture.
Bret Baier
Last thing, Doctor Kissinger: if you had a piece of advice for President Biden now, looking at the world that he’s looking at, and we’re all looking at, what would it be?
Henry Kissinger
I would say that the world, now, it’s … it’s fragmented as it has ever been. Every part of the world is in contact with every other part of the world. There are now means of communications which had been inconceivable thirty years ago. And there are capabilities of weapons which make even nuclear weapons look outdated because they have married the scale of weapons to a certain automaticity in the use of these weapons, in which the weapons themselves can decide to some extent what the targets are. The problem of diplomacy and the problem of war: it has a dimension that has never existed before. So the great challenge is to be militarily secure but also diplomatically so flexible that one recognises the scope of what we are facing. And visionary enough to put it forward.
Bret Baier
Doctor Kissinger, thank you so much for your time. The book is called Leadership: six studies in world strategy. Thank you very much for coming on.
Henry Kissinger
Thank you for asking me. Good to see you.
Lausanne, the lines above were posted on the twelfth day of the seventh month of the year two thousand and twenty-two.
Nobel Prize winner scholar, national security expert Doctor Henry Kissinger. His latest book, Leadership: six studies in world strategy. Doctor Kissinger, it’s great to see you.
Henry Kissinger
Good to be with you.
Bret Baier
I want to talk about your book specifically, but I’d love to get your thoughts on the world today while we have you here and specifically what’s happening in Ukraine and Russia. How do you see that tonight?
Henry Kissinger
Russia has taken about 15% of the territory of Ukraine and the line for the moment is militarily stabilised. And it looks a little bit like [a] World War One type situation in which both sides are spending part of the summer reinforcing their position. We have added uh advanced American weapons; the Russians are undoubtedly reinforcing their ground forces, so we may be seeing two offensives going on simultaneously. If Russia is defeated, there is a danger of escalation. But from …any … the point of view of America, Russia cannot keep the territory it has conquered in this offensive without shaking the foundations of NATO. So it … it’s a battle which we should not, we cannot afford to lose.
Bret Baier
And how do you think it ends?
Henry Kissinger
Well, right now it looks like a stalemate, but that’s because both sides seem to be re-arming for the battle; but it will occur, I would think, no later than August. And then big decisions will have to be … to be made.
Bret Baier
Your book is called Leadership and in it you see the axes of leadership: [Bret Baier reads out an excerpt from the book] ‘Leaders think and act at the intersection of two axes: the first between the past and the future; the second between the abiding values and aspirations of those they lead.’ And you’ve done six studies in world strategy where you look at different leaders [the nouns humility, will, equilibrium, excellence, transcendence and conviction are displayed on the screen] and their different ways of dealing with this. Tell us about this book and the premise behind it.
Henry Kissinger
I thought that if I took six leaders that I’ve had an opportunity to observe, and who made a big difference in their impact on their societies [the names of Adenauer, de Gaulle, Nixon, Sadat, Lee Kuan Yew, Thatcher are displayed on the screen], it would be easier to understand what the essential component of leadership is – which is to move from the world that is familiar, that is, the past and the present, into a world that one has not yet experienced. And for that one needs vision and courage and some faith.
Bret Baier
[The quality attributed to each politician is displayed on the screen: Konrad Adenauer: humility; Charles de Gaulle: will; Richard Nixon: equilibrium; Anwar Sadat: transcendence; Lee Kuan Yew: excellence; Thatcher: courage.]
The leaders all deal in different ways, in the studies: humility, will, equilibrium transcendence, excellence and conviction. Anwar Sadat, the strategy of transcendence: [Bret Baier reads out an excerpt from the book] ‘Anwar Sadat is best known for the peace treaty with Israel that he brought to Egypt. His ultimate design, however, was not a peace treaty, great though that achievement was, but a historic modification in Egypt’s pattern of being a new order in the Middle East as a contribution to peace in the world.’
Henry Kissinger
When he came to peacemaking, he went beyond the normal diplomatic discussions and he tried to find principles that applied to all sides and that each of the countries could embrace. One of his symbolic gestures was a visit to Jerusalem, in which he visited a country that had not been recognised by any of the neighbours and in [with] which the neighbours were very reluctant to engage in any dialogue. And he went to Jerusalem and he said: ‘I don’t want to solve the following problems and listed all the problems.’ He said: ‘I want to get a new vision in which the two sides never think of each other as … as enemies and in which no mothers have to worry about the future of their sons.’ That was a heroic gesture.
Bret Baier
Last thing, Doctor Kissinger: if you had a piece of advice for President Biden now, looking at the world that he’s looking at, and we’re all looking at, what would it be?
Henry Kissinger
I would say that the world, now, it’s … it’s fragmented as it has ever been. Every part of the world is in contact with every other part of the world. There are now means of communications which had been inconceivable thirty years ago. And there are capabilities of weapons which make even nuclear weapons look outdated because they have married the scale of weapons to a certain automaticity in the use of these weapons, in which the weapons themselves can decide to some extent what the targets are. The problem of diplomacy and the problem of war: it has a dimension that has never existed before. So the great challenge is to be militarily secure but also diplomatically so flexible that one recognises the scope of what we are facing. And visionary enough to put it forward.
Bret Baier
Doctor Kissinger, thank you so much for your time. The book is called Leadership: six studies in world strategy. Thank you very much for coming on.
Henry Kissinger
Thank you for asking me. Good to see you.
Lausanne, the lines above were posted on the twelfth day of the seventh month of the year two thousand and twenty-two.