Kissinger Warns That U.S. Inching Towards War With Russia, China

Former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger, 99, has warned that “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.”

Photo Insert: Kissinger recommended the US not “accelerate the tensions and to create options, and for that, you have to have some purpose.”

Kissinger had earlier ruffled the feathers of the US, Ukraine, and the European Union (EU) by insisting that Ukraine must be ready to give Russian President Vladimir Putin concessions if it were to achieve peace, Steve Goldstein wrote for the Wall Street Journal on August 15, 2022.

It means yielding Crimea and slicing the Donetsk and Luhansk regions from the national territory and giving it on a silver platter to Putin, who treacherously invaded Ukraine, prompting EU leaders to tag Kissinger as a resurrection of Neville Chamberlain, the British prime minister who tried to appease Adolf Hitler.

In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, he recommended the US not “accelerate the tensions and to create options, and for that, you have to have some purpose.” Kissinger added that foreign policy is “very responsive to the emotion of the moment.”

He did say that even though the US played some role in triggering Russia, Ukraine now has to be treated like a NATO member, whether formally or not.

On Taiwan, he advised being “very careful” in measures that seem to change the structure of the relationship with China, without directly criticizing the recent visit by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

The secretary of state himself has been dubbed a war criminal by some for his role in sabotaging Vietnamese peace talks, expanding that war into Cambodia, and other controversial moves. He didn’t appear to express regret in the interview.

“I do not torture myself with things we might have done differently,” he says. Kissinger also became notorious for telling nations seeking US assistance that Washington was not a charitable organization engaged in full-time missionary work.

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