Mike Whitney – The Unz Review June 1, 2022
Do you know why Henry Kissinger’s speech at the World Economic Forum touched-off such a furor?
Kissinger didn’t criticize the way the war in Ukraine is being conducted or the lack of progress on the ground. No. What Kissinger criticized was the policy itself, that’s what triggered the firestorm. He was throwing a bucket of cold water on the people who concocted this loony policy by telling them to their faces that they “got it wrong.”
And, they did get it wrong, because the policy they are currently pursuing is hurting US allies and US interests. That is the metric we use to determine whether a particular policy is stupid or not and, unfortunately, this passes the “stupid test” with flying colors.
Let me explain: Our basic strategy is to “weaken” and “isolate” Russia by severing Russia’s economic ties with Europe and goading them into a long and costly quagmire in Ukraine. That’s the plan.
Now you might think that it sounds pretty reasonable but– according to Kissinger– it’s the wrong plan.
Why?
Because US National Security Strategy identifies China as America’s number one rival (which it certainly is) so, naturally, any policy that makes China stronger, runs counter to US strategic interests.
Got it? So, the question is: Does our proxy-war in Ukraine make China stronger?
And the answer is: Of course, it does. It makes China alot stronger because it forces Russia to strengthen relations with China.
What does that mean in practical terms?
It means that relations between the world’s manufacturing powerhouse (China) and the world’s second biggest producer of hydrocarbons (Russia) just got a helluva alot better because of Washington’s counterproductive war in Ukraine. That’s what it means. It also means that– as relations between the two countries improve– the pace of US imperial decline is going to accelerate as the non-dollar zone expands and bilateral trade gradually replaces the current US-dominated global trade system.
You can see this happening already. The war in Ukraine has triggered a shocking collapse in global trade, major disruptions in critical supplylines, unprecedented food and energy shortages, and the greatest redivision of the world since the breakup of the Soviet Union. Washington has decided to stake its future and the future of the American people on a senseless geopolitical gambit could turn out to be the greatest strategic catastrophe in US history.
Kissinger grasps the gravity of the situation which is why he decided to put in his two-cents. But he wasn’t just critical of the policy, he also offered an ominous warning that has been almost-entirely ignored by the media. Here’s what he said:
“Negotiations need to begin in the next two months before it creates upheavals and tensions that will not be easily overcome. Ideally, the dividing line should be a return to the status quo ante (…) Pursuing the war beyond that point would not be about the freedom of Ukraine, but a new war against Russia itself”.
There it is in black and white, but let’s break it into two parts to get a better sense of what he’s saying:
- The policy is wrong
- The policy must be changed immediately or the damage to the US and its allies will be severe and permanent. (“Negotiations need to begin in the next two months”)
That might sound too apocalyptic for some, but I think Kissinger is on to something here. After all, look at the massive changes the world has already experienced since the conflict began; the disruptions in supplylines, the food and energy shortages, and the rolling-back of the globalization project. Pretty big changes, I’d say, but they’re probably just be the tip of the iceberg. The real pain is still ahead of us.
What is this winter going to look like when home heating bills go through the roof, industries across Europe succumb to the higher energy costs, unemployment soars to Great Depression levels, and rolling blackouts become a regular feature of life in the west? That’s what the future holds for Europe and America if the policy isn’t reversed and a negotiated settlement quickly reached.
Putin has already stated that Russia will not put itself in a position where it is economically dependent on Europe again. Those days are over. Instead, he is redirecting critical energy flows to China, India and beyond. Europe is no longer a priority customer, in fact, they have emerged as a threat to Russia’s survival, which means, Russia will continue to reorient its production eastward.
How will this impact Europe?
That’s easy. Europe is going to pay more for its energy that any country in the world. That is the choice they made by shrugging off Russia’s legitimate security demands, and that is the outcome they will have to live with.
So, here’s what you need to know:
In 2021, Russia provided 40% of all the natural gas consumed in the EU.
In 2021, Russia provided over 25% of the oil consumed in the EU.
If you think that those quantities of hydrocarbons can be replaced by producers in Nigeria, Iran, Saudi Arabia or some other far-flung location, you are sadly mistaken. Europe is walking headlong into the biggest energy crisis in its history, and it can only blame itself. Here’s more from an article at RT:
“The current energy crisis could be one of the worst and longest in history and European countries could be hit particularly hard, the head of the International Energy Agency, Fatih Birol, said on Tuesday. In an interview with German magazine Der Spiegel, Birol said that the fallout from the events in Ukraine is likely to make the current energy crisis worse than the crises of the 1970s.
Back then it was all about oil. Now we have an oil crisis, a gas crisis and an electricity crisis at the same time,” Birol told the publication, adding that before the ongoing events in Ukraine, Russia was “a cornerstone of the global energy system: the world’s largest oil exporter, the world’s largest gas exporter, a leading supplier of coal.”
As part of its Ukraine-related sanctions, the EU introduced restrictions on Russian fossil fuels and has pledged to gradually phase them out. Birol warned that countries in Europe that are more dependent on Russian gas are facing a “difficult winter,” as “gas may well have to be rationed,” including in Germany. His comments came as Russia’s state gas supplier Gazprom cut off supplies to some energy firms in Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands and other countries, after their failure to pay for the fuel in rubles as per new requirements.” (“Fuel rationing may be coming to Europe – IEA“, RT)
So, I guess, freezing to death in the dark is preferrable to insisting that Ukraine remain neutral and stop killing ethnic Russians in the east? Is that the “principal” that Europe is defending?
If so, it’s a bad choice.
Here’s something to mull over: Did you know that all “oil blends” are not alike?
Why would that matter?
Because Germany currently imports 34% of its oil from Russia. And Russian oil is a fully-proven, high quality Urals blend that is delivered in vast quantities via the Druzhba pipeline to German refineries that have been engineered to meet particular processing requirements. Different oil from different providers would throw a wrench in the whole refinery process. It would require significant “modification of new feedstock lines and infrastructure, an atmospheric distillation facility, a vacuum distillation system, a cat-crack unit, a visbreaking facility, an alkylation unit, a catalytic reformer, an isomerisation unit, and an ethyl tertiary butyl ether (ETBE) facility. Plus brand new storage facilities + handling equipment for Rostock feed to substitute the 24x7x365 smooth Druzhba pipeline.” (“Germany’s Refinery Problem”, The Saker)
So, all oil blends aren’t the same?
Nope, not even close. On top of that, industry experts estimate that the refinery modifications would take roughly 6 years to complete. In the meantime, Germany’s economic growth– which is closely aligned with energy consumption– will dip dramatically, businesses will be shuttered, unemployment will spike, and the EU’s most powerful and productive country will be brought to its knees.
Maybe someone in the German government should have thought about these things before they decided to boycott Russia oil?
The point we’re trying to make is simple: Kissinger is right and the neocon clowns that concocted the failed Ukraine strategy are wrong, dead wrong. And, if we don’t convene “Negotiations… in the next two months”, as Kissinger advices, then the break with Russia will be final and irreversible, at which point, Russia’s voluminous energy resources, mineral wealth and agricultural products will be forever routed eastward to friendlier nations. And that is going to inflict terrible suffering on both the United States and its allies in Europe.
The only reasonable course of action is to call for an immediate ceasefire so that peace talks can begin ASAP.
Kissenger is well known at the U.N. as a jew a satanist and a homosexual
nuff-said
Henry Kissinger isn’t hoping to save Ukraine and the planet, he’s hoping to save Henry Kissinger. He never cared in the least about the 2 million+ people whose deaths he was directly involved in in Vietnam and Cambodia, but he seems rather keen to stay alive himself and reach 100 next year.
Kissinger is back on the money. US has destroyed Europe as well as the world, the people in charge of America in DC are no friend of the average American or any Average Westerner.
Im based in Australia and fuel in $2.34 litre, and will be going up another 10% very soon when the Government excess Tax is slapped back on.
Electricity is about to go up by at least 20%
Loaf of bread is $4
2 litre milk is $4.40
Ice berg lettuce is $10
Kilo lamb depending on the cut $25_ $59kg
House prices 1.4 million. Sydney
960,000 Melbourne.
Packet of smokes 40’s $64.99
1 gram of Cocaine =$400
1 ounce of Pot $250-$600
1 Schooner $8
I can all see these prices at least going up by 50%.
Australia used to have the cheapest electricity and food in the world,
Houses 40 years ago in Sydney were between 60k 130k depending on area.
I remember when petrol was .29cents litre,
Yep the War in Ukraine is hurting average folks, but those in the media apparently wanted the war to take the focus of Joe Biden. Now we are all suffering the consequences of Joe Bribem trying to look tough against Russia.
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The unknown puppet-masters instructed Kissinger to postpone the war. Even the destabilising New Madrid rupture has not arrived yet. Their aim is for the control of ALL assets and survival groups AFTER the poleshift to come out on top. Could be 4/5 years from now.
Everything calls peace till the war arrives on their doorstep.
Henry Kissinger ‘nails it’!
Hip-hip HOORAY!!!
Surely .
The only thing keeping this wretched man alive is Adrenochrome.
The sooner him & alike are gone. the better.
What this scribbler doesn’t seem to grasp is that all the impending catastrophe he views as geopolitical suicide and just plain bad judgement..is in fact desired outcome.. long planned for..
Set in motion by the ‘people’ who actually run the ‘farm’… not the mannequins in the shop window providing the childish melodramas for the common imbecile..
A good rule of thumb is that if the narrative is ‘contradictory’, over complicated and irrational, it is usually bullshit…and you are being played for a fool..
the court ‘jew’ Kissinger is actually spelling it out for you.. Of course the ‘people ‘ who run the farm aren’t nearly as monolithic as ‘they’ would have you believe.. they like to terrify the peons with windy tales of their omnipotence and technological prowess (most of it nonsense) but it seems a certain subset are getting a little nervous, under the pall of unforeseen consequence as Greater Powers come into view.. because even the best laid plans can cascade out of control..
and the imminent immiseration of such maggots ..is always something to look forward to…
and relish..
What’s all this Kilos and Liters stuff? Bojo is putting us back on imperial.
Well, if China is buying more Russian energy, China is buying less energy from other energy exporting countries.
Except of course if China is about to really get serious about nation infrastructure building, then that little bit extra coming from Russia will be very handy indeed.
Russia also may also engage in more nation infrastructure building of it’s own.
Germany will have to charge a lot more for their Porsche’s and Merc’s because they will be making a lot less of them due to unreliable energy supply.
Get real, they’re all in on it together. They have to pretend to the moronic goy masses that they’re not all on the ‘same team’.Kissinger is a Jew, just like Putin, Zelensky, Biden, Johnson etc..all of Jewish ancestry…Its all a staged coordinated setup (between NATO/Soviet Russia) to prolong the war & slaughter Aryan Ukrainians in accordance with Judeo-Communist Russia’s ‘World Without Nazism’ operation.
They fear the pro-white nationalist-fascists & masses of Ukraine (Azov/Right Sector/S14 etc) This is why the Zionist Overlords commanded anti-white Jewish Putin to invade & attempt to wipe them out–to institute a new Holodomor & prevent the impending threat of white nationalists (‘Nazis’) from taking over Ukraine. Russia is a neo-Bolshevik State dominated by hundreds of Jewish Oligarchs. Thus create a war (War is Peace) to avert the ‘white fascists’ from focusing on obtaining political power & establishing a White Ethnostate–now they’re forced to fight/die for their nation…figure it out, if you can.
Most white gentiles are incapable of understanding or comprehending this type of Machiavellian Jewish artifice & subterfuge…
@Nico X
That’s complete fiction and nonsense. Delusional ravings of a lunatic.
Azov and all other Ukrainian “nationalists” were set up by various billionaire jews, chief among them Kolomoisky. From 2014 on, hundreds of former IDF mercenaries and Mossad agents have trained these scumbags in their reign of terror across Ukraine.
Let me ask you an honest question: what kind of hard drugs do you do? Acid/LSD? sniff glue? Because the illogical nonsense that you parrot so mindlessly can only be done while either high on cheap drugs, or you’re with Unit 8200 (as so many have pointed out), trying to muddy and defile every topic with confusion. Now **that** is a jew trick.
One that also nailed it was Eric Idle back in the day.
Henry Kissinger
How I’m missing yer
You’re the Doctor of my dreams
With your crinkly hair and your glassy stare
And your machiavellian schemes
I know they say that you are very vain
And short and fat and pushy but at least you’re not insane
Henry Kissinger
How I’m missing yer
And wishing you were here
Henry Kissinger
How I’m missing yer
You’re so chubby and so neat
With your funny clothes and your squishy nose
You’re like a German parakeet
All right so people say that you don’t care
But you’ve got nicer legs than Hitler
And bigger tits than Cher
Henry Kissinger
How I’m missing yer
And wishing you were here
No one gives such advice on their own from a position of having been a US United States Secretary of State and National Security Advisor. Everything he has ever done is to promote US and Israeli long-term objectives. The Russian invasion was planned. The entire Nazification crap through Soros and Zelenskyy and building up hostilities with Russia was planned and staged. It is all chess looking at moves far down the road. Putin, Labrov and the entire Russian foreign relations team started going through extensive negotiations with Israel for a solution to the so-called Syrian and Iran obstacles over the past two years.
No doubt the US and the UK were hidden parties to such negotiations, and as said at the opening of the Ukraine conflict this year, the deal has already been made to shift boundaries of the superpowers here and there, and the obvious solution when canvassing various interests will be for Russia to get control of the four Western regions of the Ukraine in exchange for their Black Sea and Mediterranean access, in exchange for standing down for likely planned Western operations to come in Syria and Iran. Yes, it is only a guess, but taking into consideration that Kissinger and the US have never really got anywhere by trying to negotiate Assad away in exchange for a US puppet regime, we likely anytime over the next six months will witness some massive false-flag operation in the ME blaming Iran and entailing an immediate takeover of Syria and bombing of Iran.
Many who think that such aggression against Arab nations as good or “necessary” for the long-range interests of our nations would regard these comments treasonous regardless of whether the yare right or wrong. But I disagree. Such methods are exactly what is wrong with the ruthless and amoral establishment of the West running our nations. We have no right to kill or exploit innocent people anywhere. Besides, with all of the psyops and fakeries against us they have in fact declared war on us. Covid proved that to them we are their real enemy.
The court iewe has spoken!
Tais toi!
But another enchanter says the opposite.
Soros.
Have you yet understod?
Heinz ketchup.
Soros the Nazi!
Ok you dumb nicotinex!
You will suffer from your delusions.
How can you explain Bandera Nazis in cahout with creepy Joe?!
One sick society !!!
Mystic and Yogi
No he does not. It’s kabuki theatre and they all belong to one group. The failure of knowing this is willful ignorance as they are all part of Freemasonry and have pictures of them all together and Kissinger is one of the most evil men on this earth. His history shows exactly who he is.
https://www.technocracy.news/bilderberg-elites-meet-in-washington-d-c-june-2-5-2022/
Look at the list and know that these are not the top of the group but for the most part, useful idiots doing work for those that don’t among the trillionaire families that date back over 1000 years in some cases. Mathias Bush, the Van Rosenvelts, and several other presidents including Carter (Cathar and Templar) and many US leaders, the entire group of the largest banks of State Street, Bank of NY/Mellon, Vangaard, Blackrock, along with everything from Railroads, Medicine are missed entirely. That is just a fraction. The Pilgrim’s Society is every bit as sick and evil as are Le Cercle, Boheminan Grove, Brakenhouse, Thule, UN, International Chamber of Congress, the entire House of Windsor and most Lords of Britain and hundreds of others from Royal lines that originally come from the Middle East from trade routes shown which identify world trade for thousands of years are also part.
They’ve slautghered all life around the earth and read this:
https://www.technocracy.news/wef-living-in-metaverse-will-be-more-meaningful-to-us-than-our-physical-lives/
I’ve stated this before because there will be nothing left alive and most wildlife is gone, just 3% of all biomass.
Above comments CON-tribute more than any words I might write. If the good Rev. Dodgson’s Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum did not do it for you, nothing here will. “When reason and proportion fall sloppy dead” — that’s now, for those of you keeping close watch on Time, as did one famous White Rabbit by GOD’s Grace made known to us once again! Feed your head!!
Heinz is obviously bored with the earthling riff-raff (all sides) and in his older age is just having a little prank. A little fun. You know, before he receives his well deserved promotion. And no, you really don’t want to know and neither do I. But let’s instead consider his last his (lol) fond farewell. I give him a couple of months at most. His last word will probably be. . . Boooooooring at least according to my cynic’s crystal ball..
P.S. Who’s the Naga to his left..