Ukraine: Henry Kissinger understands that diplomacy will do what armies cannot do and vice versa

 

Henry Kissinger understands, better that anybody else, that diplomacy will do what armies cannot do and vice versa.

Since the end of the Twentieth Century, Gun Ho policies have led the USA nowhere and one adventure after another has ended in disaster.

It took more than 20 years to fight a war that started with George Bush Jr and finished with Jo Biden in a rather inconclusive manner with Taliban once again in control of Afghanistan. Iraq was completely destabilised entire regions leading to a series of ongoing regional conflicts that have made the world less safe.

When it comes to Ukraine, USA is faring no better in a war by proxy that threatens to totally destroy Ukraine. It is costly for American taxpayers and it is costly for Ukraine in human lives, in a country in which those who went to the front are surrendering in throws and those who were supposed to go the front are hiding to avoid conscription.

Henry Kissinger proposed partition with Ukraine keeping areas that are not ethnically Russian. Taking the fuel away from the fire, the fire has nothing else to keep it going. With utmost regularity, the Biden Administration is having to ask Congress for vast amounts of money - not to keep the costly apparatus of the US administration, but to finance yet another war.

There is also the fact that it will take just the actions of a single NATO country to start World War Three in Europe. Poland is the likely candidate to do such a thing if Poland ever deploys Polish troops inside Ukraine.The Biden Administration is running out of time to prevent the USA from being dragged into World War Three by the Polish government.

Henry Kissinger's proposal was aimed at preventing what now seems inevitable. President Zelensky is doing everything possible to enrage the Russian Federation and by doing this President Zelensky could up like the rebels of Bay of Pigs in Fidel Castro's Cuba. If you antagonise those who publicly support you their support is not going to last too long.

NATO is not a united front and they have conflicting interests. The EU is not a united front and members have conflicting interests. Once again, Winter is around the corner. With falling temperatures, energy consumption will once again go up and energy prices will once again be on the way up putting economies - once again - to the test. It is easy to talk about capping prices in days of plenty with high temperatures. When temperatures drop, prices will go up and this will be felt across Europe.

Giving diplomacy a chance will go a long way to prevent an even major disaster in a European continent  with so many countries in recession.

Allende before, Lula next

 

In the 1970s, many in the left celebrated the arrival of Salvador Allende. 11 September 1973 ended with bloodshed and the rest is history.

I happened to be in the River Plate region at the time. I was told about the imminent military coup in Chile and was even told when and how it was going to happen.

There are different versions about Salvador Allende's death: one version of events was that he killed himself not to be arrested and another version is that he was killed when he was still at La Moneda Palace. It makes no difference. The fact is that that put an end to his life and to his government.

This is Lula's second coming and this time the difference between his party and the opposition is less than 1 per cent of the vote. This means that opposition in Parliament will be fierce. As soon as Lula tries to implement any policy that goes against the flow, the transit of any bill through Parliament will be traumatic. 

When Latin American countries go left, alarm bells start ringing in the US State Department and like it happened in 1973, the CIA and others will have already made contingency plans to deal with governments that are seen as a security threat to the USA.

In Argentina, the second most important member of Mercosur, the situation is unbearable. Neither Radicales nor Justicialistas have been able to bring things under control. Indebtedness, galloping inflation in Argentina has led Uruguay to take urgent measures to curb importation of goods coming from Argentina as a massive influx would endanger Uruguay's own economy.

What happens in Chile? Well, just a few days ago a Referendum was called to try and reform Pinochet's Constitution and there were not enough votes to change the Constitution. The fact that this happens many years after the end of the military regime tells you, without a shadow of a doubt, that the country is very much divided. And what happens in Venezuela? Let us remember that Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Venezuela are members of Mercosur. With Lula at the helm, will Brazil get closer to Venezuela and Cuba? Left-wing hope could well lead to left-wing tragedy.  

USA/Russia: Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin are gleamour of hope

USA/Russia: Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin are gleamour of hope

For those of us that remember the old days - 1962 included - despite all comments about how bad things are at the moment, things could not be any worse in 1962 when Kennedy and Khrushev almost went to blows over the issue of missiles in Cuba. The fact that a President is ready to walk his half of the way to do what needs to be done is refreshing and the words of Winston Churchill about 'jaw jaw better than war war' come loud and clear.

A few weeks ago, North Korea was launching missiles and violating the air space of Japan. Today, North Korea is no longer launching missiles across neighbouring countries nor threatening to attack the USA. Who managed to put an end to the military fever that could have started a major conflict? President Donald Trump. He confounded both friends and foes and talked directly to the North Korean President.

Now, President Donald Trump is talking with Vladimir Putin because once again 'jaw jaw is better than war war' and being criticised for wanting to deal with all issues in a business-like manner. Who is attacking President Trump? The criminals that prefer war and conflict are attacking President Trump, the prostitutes of the mass media and of the establishment that sold their souls to Satan in the pursuit of money by whatever means.

President Donald Trump talks about a strong USA but also talks about dialogue as the main tools to resolve any disputes. By the way, isn't dialogue the way proposed by the Organisation of the United Nations created in 1945 as the main way to resolve disputes? By talking to friends and foes directly, President Trump is applying a fundamental principle of the Organisation of the United Nations.

I would suggest that all those pseudo journalists and politicians that want wars and conflicts should be forcefully enlisted and sent to the battlefield. That will cure them. Put the said journalists and politicians on the firing line to change their ways.

Is President Obama a mental retard?

For ages he have had to put up with US lies and deceit talking about a Russian threat. Well, look at the numbers and you will see who is the real threat.

US military expenditure........ $585 billion
Russia military expenditure.....$46 billion

US Bases.................................800
Russian Bases..............................7

This includes military occupation of Japan and Germany that still continues more than 70 years after the end of World War Two.

There is no place for occupation forces in Japan and in Germany. All US forces must be withdrawn from Germany and Japan, not to mention Guantanamo that should be in Cuban hands.

1962 - 2016 USA then and now. Russian Federation faces American Empire

In 1962, the world could have witnessed nuclear war when US threatened the then Soviet Union with war because of missiles in Cuba.

Today, after a gigantic amount of patience, the Russian Federation tells warmonger US to stop provoking the Russian Federation by installing missiles in Poland and in Romania, just across the borders of the Russian Federation.

The United States of America, after destabilizing Asia Minor, Middle East and Africa, is actively engaged destabilizing Europe and using the EU in a war by proxy against the Russian Federation.

The refugee crisis that engulfs Europe was created by illegal wars and US military interventions across the world. The USA has trillions of Dollars of debt that it cannot pay and does not want to pay and still spends more in the business of war than all the rest of the world put together. So what is the American recipe? Purely and simply, printing currency and getting deeper and deeper into debt while the rest of the world is told to live within its means and this is exactly the kind of status quo that the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund controlled by the USA have promoted.

The USA talks about Human Rights. Well, When people talk about US Foreign Policies the said policies don't seem to have any regard for Human Rights. Just a few days ago, people were remembering Operation Condor, a strategic plan developed by the USA and implemented by Latin American dictatorships that the USA fully supported. In Argentina alone more than 30,000 people were 'disappeared' with total knowledge of the USA and total support from the USA.

Tens of thousands were tortured and killed by Police Forces and Armies trained by the USA who sent special 'instructors and advisers on interrogation methods'. One such adviser was Dan Mitrione who arrived in Uruguay when the country was still under a democratic government. Dan Mitrione was captured and killed by guerrillas in Uruguay but there were many others because as a CIA link he specialized on torture methods applied to political detainees.

A few days before the coup d'état in Chile in September 1973, my father and I attended a meeting of officers of the Uruguayan Air Force. At the meeting, the coup d'état that was going to happen against President Salvador Allende in Chile was mentioned. The Uruguayan Army had taken control of Uruguay in June 1973 with the auspices of the US State Department. So, it was business as usual and very much an integral part of US Foreign Policy.

Old habits die hard and USA is playing with millions of lives for the sake of implementing its warmongering agenda.