Go to the media bankFormer US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger before a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin. June 29, 2017. File photoMOSCOW, Oct 23. In the United States, a conflict has brewed between two political veterans — US President Joe Biden and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. According to Harold Hyman, a columnist for the French publication Causeur, politicians disagree on relations with Russia and the Ukrainian crisis. As the author writes, if Kissinger is guided by pragmatism, then Biden acts from the position of a «hawk», making loud and «not entirely constructive» statements to Russian leader Vladimir Putin.The United States is forcing Europe to commit suicide «Joe Biden allowed himself to take a clearly belligerent and moralizing stance towards Putin. They say that democracy and international law must be protected, and so on. As for Putin, Biden began to simply insult him, linking the Russian president with high-profile crimes It was as if Biden wanted to rehabilitate himself by throwing off the image of a weak president that was established after the failures in Afghanistan,” Hyman believes. At the same time, the author stated a more realistic position of Kissinger, whom, as he writes, Joe Biden tries not to mention. Kissinger, Hyman recalled, often called Ukraine a special case for any Russian leader, and also argued that dialogue between the United States and Russia is impossible without the White House recognizing Ukraine as a zone of Russian influence, which must remain neutral. «Kissinger makes it clear that the impassioned the condemnation of Russia as an «expansionist dictatorship» misses the mark. The problem is no longer in geopolitics, but in elementary security, «the observer explained. Hyman also recalled that Kissinger highly appreciated the Russian leader for his desire to act strictly in the interests of his country.
Kissinger called US attempts to include Ukraine in NATO unreasonable «They met about thirty times and spoke in German. Kissinger often wrote about Putin's foreign policy, presenting him as a pragmatist, a «mystically strong national leader» and a «patriot,» writes Hyman. Previously former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger called for a diplomatic solution to the Ukrainian conflict, otherwise it could turn into a serious escalation. Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called it the goal of «protecting people who have been bullied for eight years , genocide by the Kyiv regime». For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass.
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