Posted on 04/07/2020 4:23:03 AM PDT by Kaslin
Among the works that first brought Henry Kissinger to academic acclaim was "A World Restored," his 1950s book about how the greatest diplomats of Europe met at the Congress of Vienna to restore order to a continent shattered by the Napoleonic Wars.
The balance-of-power peace these men achieved lasted -- with the significant exception of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871 -- for the full century, from 1815 to 1914.
Writing in The Wall Street Journal Friday, Kissinger declared that it is now an imperative that the world's leaders, even as they deal with the raging pandemic, begin to make the "transition to the post-coronavirus order."
"Failure to do so could set the world on fire."
Yet, the ingredients Kissinger considers essential for establishing that new world order appear, like ventilators, to be in short supply.
"Sustaining public trust," asserts Kissinger, "is crucial ... to international peace and stability."
But how do we trust again our adversary China, after its criminal cover-up of the menace and magnitude of the virus unleashed in Wuhan?
How do we trust again this regime that was, until recently, blaming the coronavirus on U.S. Army troops visiting Wuhan?
Observing governments thrashing about in the crisis, the phrase that comes to mind is not "public trust" as much as "every nation for itself."
On Monday, The Wall Street Journal described Europe's recent behavior thus:
"EU countries unilaterally shut borders and hoarded vital medical gear, leaving people stranded far from home, grocery stores struggling to stock shelves and hospitals desperate to save critically ill patients.
"When Italy and Spain, reeling from some of the world's most deadly outbreaks, urged their richer and healthier Northern neighbors to help, Dutch politicians brushed off the appeals as new signs of southerners' mismanagement."
Last week, the EU's Court of Justice ruled that Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic broke EU law by refusing to relocate refugees during the migrant crisis in 2015. The three nations offered no apologies.
Last month, Greece used force to stop Syrian refugees from entering its territory. According to Human Rights Watch, Greek troops and armed men at the Greece-Turkey land border sexually assaulted, robbed and stripped asylum seekers and migrants, driving them back into Turkey. The EU has stayed largely silent.
When Donald Trump's issued his Jan. 31 travel ban on those who had recently been in China, candidate Joe Biden denounced Trump for "hysterical xenophobia and fear-mongering."
Biden now thinks Trump did the right thing.
Even lifetime liberals can put ideology on the shelf when the voice of the people is loud and clear enough.
We must "struggle to heal the wounds to the world economy," said Kissinger.
Yet, the crisis has revealed that a prominent feature of this global economy is that China controls the production of medicines essential to keeping Americans alive. Do we want to continue that dependency?
Says Kissinger: "The world's democracies need to defend and sustain their Enlightenment values... (and) safeguard the principles of the liberal world order."
But did not March 2020 prove the superior wisdom of Alexander Hamilton: "Every nation ought to endeavour to possess within itself all the essentials of national supply."
Today, borders are everywhere being strengthened as nations compete ferociously for N95 masks and ventilators. Authoritarian rulers are seizing broader powers. The claims of family, faith, tribe, nation and country seem ascendant over all.
"The founding legend of modern government," writes Kissinger, "is a walled city ... strong enough to protect the people from an external enemy. ... This pandemic has produced ... a revival of the walled city in an age where prosperity depends on global trade and movement of people."
Kissinger calls the concept of the walled city an "anachronism," a "legend."
ut is the idea of the nation-state, whose principal duty is the defense of the health, safety and security of the unique people who created it, the "legend"?
Or is the real legend, the myth, the idea of some New World Order of countries traveling and trading happily with one another in a federation of the world?
In this coronavirus crisis, we can see clearly now, no longer as through a glass darkly.
As in most wars, it is to the men of action not the men of words to whom the people turn -- to governors, not legislators or members of Congress, who are taking action, as states outbid one another for critical medical equipment.
As for Donald Trump, suddenly, the elites are berating him for being insufficiently dictatorial.
Trump, they rail, did not move swiftly enough to invoke the Defense Production Act. He failed to use its authority to dictate to U.S. companies what they must produce. He did not shut down the country quickly enough. He failed to issue orders soon enough to governors who delayed shutting down their states.
People are dying, it is now said, because Trump did not immediately become the autocrat that progressives were denouncing him for being during the impeachment hearings two months ago.
I spit in your general direction, you and soros
FOAD Kissinger.
“Sustaining public trust,” asserts Kissinger, “is crucial ... to international peace and stability.” >>>
Sounds like the same old Builderburger One World , no borders, crap that PDJT has correctly revised, while staving off false accusations of “Isolationism.” Establishing a healthy nation state as America is really the task at hand.And having this as an international order of mutual respecting nation states, each acting with enlightened self interest, is actually more likely to bring an era of peace rather than an era of conflict as posited by Herr Kissinger.
Kissinger is a squeaking wheel that needs no grease. Let him squeak himself to death as we Make America Great Again.
After WWII, it morphed into Pax Americana.
It has been the dream of the Globalists to turn that into Brave New World.
I thought Henry was moving to the right long after he carried water for Nelson Rockefeller and Richard Nixon. He also supported one of the re-election bids of Jesse Helms. And he is a Trump supporter. But the “new world order” call keeps Henry ticking.
push us further down the agenda 21 (agenda 2030)rabbit hole.
and the sheople fell in line
Old dead man walking/talking.
And Kissinger has legions of fawning deep state Graduates of Georgetown with masters in public administration and international affairs writing Panglossian white papers explaining why the Kissingerian international "liberal" democratic order is the best of all possible worlds.
What Kissinger forgets in his admiration of Castleragh, Metternich and Bismarck is that liberal democracy was established, in America, at the gunpoints of country's free citizenry forcing this order on their governments while hanging would be tyrants. Others were reduced to pikes and scythes. It was not imposed on people by foreign rulers with armies shooting people who refused to be "democratic" citizens, which is what China seems to be doing. It's a subtle point, I know, but Kissinger is a smart guy. I am sure he can figure it out.
The Chinese invasion or more like Colonization of our country and the West has been the greatest
disaster in my lifetime .
Its time to send them all back .
If there is a WW111 it will be with the Chinese .
Go somewhere and Die You Prehistoric POS !!!
Efff the NWO!
Why me, what did I do to you?
So the deep state needs to dig up some cadaver to push their shit now?
FU Kissinger !!!
The only person separating us from this is PDJT!
DJT ripped a page from Pat Buchanan’s world view and called it MAGA, and we’re better for it.
Kissinger and his New World Order buddies are a virus unto themselves.
The US constitution was fantastic in that different states agreed to join together for their common interests, but remain responsible to themselves for INTERNAL matters. (At least that’s how it was supposed to be before creeping federal takeover of more an more power)
The United STATES of America became the most powerful nation because of it.
I often wonder if it would be good to have a similar INTERNATIONAL agreement of the same type, it would be nice to live in peace.
BUT
That is not what they are doing- they are doing actions in secret, and seem to want a one-world dictatorship.
A global socialist state would be the start of a new ‘dark ages’
I’ve gotten to dislike this man....now that I know more.
Henry listen up you old fart. For me I consider myself a citizen of Virginia and under the governance of Richmond and by consensus DC. That is it. I AM NOT A CITIZEN OF THE WORLD!!!
Kissinger:
“My friends and I are so much smarter than you. You should live your life exactly the way we say you should. Oh, if you disagree, my friends will kill you. You’ll thank us later.”
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