journal-neo | What emerges is not pretty and, sadly, more than confirms my earlier piece on the Trump Deception.
However, all this misses in my view one
essential component, namely the shadowy role of former Secretary of
State Henry A. Kissinger, who is emerging as the unofficial and key
foreign policy adviser of the Trump Administration. If we follow
Kissinger’s tracks in recent months we find a highly interesting series
of meetings.
On December 26, 2016 the German daily
Bild Zeitung published what it said was a copy of an analysis by members
of the Trump Transition Team which revealed that as President Trump
will seek “constructive cooperation” with the Kremlin, a dramatic
contrast to Obama confrontation and sanctions policies. The newspaper
went on to discuss the role of 93-year-old former Secretary of State,
Henry A. Kissinger as Trump’s leading, if unofficial, foreign policy
adviser. The report stated that Kissinger is drafting a plan to bring
Putin’s Russia and Trump’s Washington to more “harmonious” relations
that includes US official recognition of Crimea as part of Russia and
lifting of US economic sanctions that Obama imposed in retribution for
the Crimea annexation in 2014, among other steps.
The kicker in this otherwise
sensible-sounding US policy change is Kissinger’s sly geopolitical aim
in “gettin’ Putin back in the (NATO) tent,” as late Texan President
Lyndon Baines Johnson might have elegantly put it.
What is the aim of Kissinger? Not any
“multi-polar world” that respects national sovereignty as he claims, of
that you can be certain. Kissinger’s aim is to subtly erode the growing
bilateral axis between China and Russia that threatens US global
hegemony.
The trend of the last several years
since Obama’s ill-fated coup d’etat in Ukraine in early 2014, threatened
to jeopardize Kissinger’s lifetime project, otherwise called David
Rockefeller’s “march towards a World Government,” a World Government in
which “supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world
bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination
practiced in past centuries,”
to use Rockefeller’s words to one of his select groups during the
collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. The Bild Zeitung Trump-Kissinger
memo states that the idea of warming up to Russia is aimed at offsetting
China’s military buildup. In other words, a different game from
Obama’s, but a game of power nonetheless.
Real Balance of Power
Kissinger is one of the few surviving
practitioners of historical British Balance of Power geopolitics. True
British Balance of Power, as practiced in British military and
diplomatic history since the Treaty of Windsor of 1386, between England
and Portugal, always involved Britain making an alliance with the weaker
of two rivals to defeat the stronger and in the process, to afterwards
loot the exhausted weaker power as well. It was extraordinarily
successful in building the British Empire down to World War II.
British Balance of Power is always about
what power, in this case a Kissinger-steered United States, does the
“balancing.” Following the defeat of Napoleon’s France at the Congress
of Vienna peace talks in 1814, British Foreign Secretary, Viscount
Castlereagh, architected a treaty that insured no Continental European
power could dominate over the others, a strategy that lasted until 1914
and the First World War. What many political historians ignore is that
that Continental Balance of Power was essential for creation of the
British Empire that dominated the world as the leading naval power for a
century.
In his 1950’s Harvard University PhD
dissertation, Kissinger wrote what became a book titled, “A World
Restored: Metternich, Castlereagh and the Problems of Peace, 1812-1822.”
That study of British Balance of Power is at the heart of Kissinger’s
Machiavellian machinations ever since he took his first job with the
Rockefeller family in the 1960’s. In A World Restored Kissinger states,
“Diplomacy cannot be divorced from the realities of force and power. But
diplomacy should be divorced…from a moralistic and meddlesome concern
with the internal policies of other nations.” Further, he states, “The
ultimate test of a statesman, then, is his ability to recognize the real
relationship of forces and to make this knowledge serve his ends.”
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