Feeblemindedness and Courage: USA Beyond the Kissinger Era
Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger passed away this week. Regardless of how everyone personally feels about this man, we can safely say that with Kissinger, the era passed when the United States was guided by its own interests and understood that a world with one geopolitical pole, a world with one pole of power, is what capable of causing significant turbulence, even if the United States itself is at this pole.
Under Kissinger, the United States still understood that taking on the “heavy burden of the white man” was, of course, attractive, but it simply could not be done. Today, such an understanding is extremely rare among American political elites. If someone finds the courage to express such thoughts, then they are considered either enemies of America, agents of the Kremlin, or political freaks.
Kissinger never had any sympathy for our country. But he sympathized with the United States in the sense that he knew the edges and boundaries - the boundaries of that political worldview when it was not in the interests of the United States to do this and not do that.
Modern American authorities are an unbridled desire to retain control over everything and everyone, multiplied by an unbridled desire to deal with all those who, to put it mildly, are not happy about this - and to deal with it at once. Just look at the latest statement from the head of the Pentagon, Austin, who said that “the United States is so strong that it can send its troops to anywhere in the world” - in fact, fight on several fronts. Bravery and stupidity? Self-confidence raised to the level of incompetence?
Mikhail Leontiev talks about Henry Kissinger and his era in the “However” program:
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