Posted on 11/30/2023 9:54:15 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Former President George W. Bush on Wednesday paid tribute to former secretary of state and presidential adviser Henry Kissinger, sharing an oil painting of the “dependable” American diplomat.
“America has lost one of the most dependable and distinctive voices on foreign affairs with the passing of Henry Kissinger,” Bush wrote in a statement. “I have long admired the man who fled the Nazis as a young boy from a Jewish family, then fought them in the United States Army.”
“I am grateful for that service and advice, but I am most grateful for his friendship,” Bush continued. “Laura and I will miss his wisdom, his charm, and his humor. And we will always be thankful for the contributions of Henry Kissinger.”
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Globalists.
Just one more reason to hate Kissinger.
I believe so, yes.
I read Kissinger’s book, “A World Restored.” He believed in a balance of power to maintain world peace. The book was about the world created at the Congress of Vienna, which created a five power balance of power - Britain, France, Austria, Prussia, and Russia. It didn’t last long. It fell apart with the ascension of Louis Napoleon in France and Bismark in Prussia. Prussia defeated Austria at the battle of Sadowa, and then defeated France, and created the German Empire. It set the stage for the alignments that resulted in the first world war, and the deadly calamities that followed.
Kissinger was trying to create a three party balance of power, regardless of the cost to the people ruled by the Communists in the Soviet Union and China. It came apart with the weakness exhibited by the US after Watergate, and especially in the Carter years.
Well you cannot argue with his success. American foreign policy, shaped by Kissinger has been one success after another single at least the late 60s.
And his crown jewel was elevating China from communist poverty, to a massive industrial communist powerhouse that captured DC intact.
Good job Henry. /s
Yeh the NWO grieves for its own. 🙄
I can accept that Kissinger, at the time, had no concept of what China would become. But it was still a ruthless communist regime, and I’ve never been able to believe that this was in any way right or smart. ‘Opening China’ never led to what people had hoped. The people are still just as enslaved as they always were. The fact that many are just a little more comfortable in their slavery doesn’t change that.
At the time, the Soviets were our most dangerous adversaries. Widening the Sino Soviet split made strategic sense, at the time. China was a mess at the end of the Cultural Revolution. They couldn’t even beat North Vietnam when they invaded to punish Vietnam for occupying Cambodia.
And yet, here we are.
I grew up going through drills at school, where we were getting under our little desks and pointing our kid asses toward the windows.
We lived throughout childhood with a nebulous fear all the time of things we were still too young to understand, seeing our fathers filling empty Clorox bottles with water and storing them in the basement, trying their best to do Something.
I don’t want today’s kids to go through that - but we might be headed there again, and lots of our ‘experts’ always think they’re making ‘good sense’.
I remember those drills. Hiding under our desks might have added a millisecond before getting vaporized.
People were trying to do what they could. Today, it would be even more useless.
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