Guest Column by Henry Kissinger

These days the neo-cons have the exclusive acess to Obama. There has always been enmity between Brzezinski, the Polak neo-con and Kissinger, the war criminal realist with whom the Russians have always like to do business.

Kissinger, clearly, does not like the present course. 

Obama is the first president to refuse to have a private meeting with Kissinger.

Kissinger: Ukraine should forget about Crimea and NATO membership

Paul Craig Roberts,

17 November, 2014

Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger spoke about global threats, the secession of Crimea and Ukraine’s NATO accession.

Mr. Kissinger said that there currently is an urgent need for a new world order, but its coming into being will be long and complicated. “There are no universally accepted rules,” said Mr. Kissinger in an interview with the German magazine Der Spiegel. “There is the Chinese view, the Islamic view, the Western view and, to some extent, the Russian view. And they really are not always compatible.”

Speaking of Crimea’s accession to Russia, he noted that this is a special case, as Ukraine and Russia were one country for a long time. In his view, the West must recognize its mistakes. “Europe and America did not understand the impact of these events, starting with the negotiations about Ukraine’s economic relations with the European Union and culminating in the demonstrations in Kiev,” said Mr. Kissinger. “All these, and their impact, should have been the subject of a dialogue with Russia.”

He is sure that Ukraine has always had a special significance for Russia. Failure to understand this was fatal, and the Ukrainian authorities can forget about the Crimean peninsula. “Nobody in the West has offered a concrete program to restore Crimea,” said Mr. Kissinger. “Nobody is willing to fight over eastern Ukraine.” In his opinion, introducing anti-Russian sanctions was a mistake.

“We have to remember that Russia is an important part of the international system, and therefore useful in solving all sorts of other crises, for example in the agreement on nuclear proliferation with Iran or over Syria,” Mr. Kissinger said. “This has to have preference over a tactical escalation in a specific case.” He added that Ukraine should not hope to become a member of NATO in the foreseeable future, as the alliance will never vote unanimously for the accession of Ukraine.

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US was wrong to say Assad must go: Kissinger

Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has admitted that Washington’s scenario to topple Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has been a mistake.

Press TV ,

15 November, 2014

“It was wrong to say from the beginning that Assad must go -- although it is a desirable ultimate goal,” Kissinger said in an interview with the German weekly Der Spiegel.

“I don't agree that the Syrian crisis can be interpreted as a ruthless dictator against a helpless population and that the population will become democratic if you remove the dictator,” he pointed out.

The veteran American politician noted that from the outset of the Syrian crisis the US “should have had a dialogue with Russia and asked what outcome we want in Syria, and formulate a strategy together.”

Since late September, the US and some of its Arab allies -- Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, Jordan, and the United Arab Emirates -- have been conducting airstrikes against ISIL inside Syria without any authorization from Damascus or a UN mandate.

Some analysts have maintained that the United States and its allies have seized on the ISIL threat to target the Syrian government.

Washington and its allies have long been accused of funding and arming the militancy in Syria since the outbreak of the crisis in the Arab country in early 2011.

On October 14, US President Barack Obama called for more support for militants fighting the Syrian government and asked the US-led coalition to be prepared for a long military campaign against the ISIL terrorist organization in Iraq and Syria.

Obama has authorized the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and more recently the Pentagon to arm and equip what he called moderate Syrian militants out of bases in Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey ostensibly to battle ISIL terrorists.

Many of these so-called moderate militants, however, have pledged allegiance to the ISIL group that has been committing heinous crimes in Iraq and Syria.