Kissin the old order goodbye
"How to Avoid Another War?" It's a bit late for that. But Henry Kissinger is not done effort posting. No one will listen to his plea for a full-dress late-twentieth-century pathway to peace, from ceasefires to negotiations to internationally supervised referendums. Certainly not Moscow. "Russia would disgorge its conquests thence"? Nyet. But he's not writing for Moscow:
Overcoming the disjunction between advanced technology and the concept of strategies for controlling it, or even understanding its full implications, is as important an issue today as climate change, and it requires leaders with a command of both technology and history.
Floor's open for nominations. Meanwhile leading officials in both parties are still talking about "defeating" Russia. One does not simply...