Kissinger Now Says That Because China is Directly Involved, Ukraine Peace Process Could Begin Soon

A lot of people on the right seem to dislike Henry Kissinger.

I used to have a negative opinion of him, but after having read about his relationship with Richard Nixon, my general opinion leads towards favorable.

He seems to be one of the few Jews you can point to who actually does seem to care about America – or did back then. These days, he’s 100 years old, and all he’s doing is commenting. But the comments I respect, because of his history and status, but I also think they are not coming from a place of evil heartedness.

Of course, while he is strangely lucid for his age, you can’t really expect a 100-year-old man to be totally on the ball. (In particular, it is hard for a man of this age, even if he is lucid, to read complicated new information – you’re more likely to get an analysis based on an older understanding of geopolitics, mixed with instinct.) So you take it with a grain of salt.

RT:

Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has told CBS News that the conflict in Ukraine may be approaching a turning point, and that Chinese-brokered peace talks could begin by the end of 2023.

Now that China has entered the negotiation, it will come to a head, I think by the end of the year,” the 99-year-old diplomat told CBS in an interview broadcast on Sunday. By that time, he continued, “we will be talking about negotiating processes and even actual negotiations.”

I still don’t understand why Americans would agree to let China be the hero, even if they want out of the situation.

They freaked out about China making peace in the Middle East.

Again, Kissinger seems to have been unlikely to register that China – which was a friend or at least basically friendly in his day – is now the ultimate nemesis of America.

With the release of its ‘Position on the Political Settlement of the Ukraine Crisis’ in February, China put itself forward as a potential mediator between Moscow and Kiev. The Chinese plan was rejected outright by the US and EU, while Russian President Vladimir Putin described some of its 12 points as “in tune” with Moscow’s position, and Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky welcomed only a handful of its points, but maintains that Kiev will not compromise with Russia in any way.

Why would any of that change?

The only thing that could change is that the US might want out – specifically to focus on war with China.

But they wouldn’t actually leave. They would let Russia reach the river and then establish some kind of DMZ, while claiming they are going to get Russia later.

The US still refuses to sign a peace treaty ending the war in Korea. Officially, on paper, the US is still at war with North Korea, even though in real terms the war ended 70 years ago.

When Trump was trying to negotiate in Korea – before he was sabotaged by John Bolton for literally no reason anyone could explain – his initial goal was to get a pact signed officially ending the war.

Zelensky’s refusal to negotiate with Putin’s government – the Ukrainian leader banned contact with the Kremlin in a decree last October – is just one stumbling block faced by China or any other potential middleman.

Russia considers the conflict in Ukraine a proxy war between itself and NATO, and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Friday that any negotiations would not be held “with Zelensky, who is a puppet in the hands of the West, but directly with his masters.”

Yeah.

Zelensky wanted to negotiate both neutrality and surrender of the Donbass in March of 2022. The US told him he wasn’t allowed to do that, then he ended up making a law that it is illegal to negotiate peace with Russia, ever.

In Washington, the administration of President Joe Biden publicly claims that it is up to Ukraine to decide when to seek peace. Zelensky has been offered no incentives by the US to do so, with Biden offering to continue supplying him with weapons “for as long as it takes” to achieve his war aims. Among these aims is the capture of Crimea, a Russian territory since 2014. American military leaders have publicly admitted that the chances of this happening are slim to none.

Yeah, the US has officially – on paper – arranged terms that are designed to ensure an endless war.

And again: even if they decide to scale it down and give up on holding territory on the East side of the river, they are going to declare a DMZ and consider the war ongoing.

Kissinger drew the ire of Kiev last year when he suggested that Ukraine should accept a return to the “status quo ante,” or relinquish its territorial claims to Crimea and grant autonomy to the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, in the name of peace. He has since suggested that these territories become the basis of negotiations after a ceasefire and Russian withdrawal.

Sure, sure.

I’m always interested to hear what Kissinger has to say, but these comments are not particularly interesting.

Unless there was some path to Zelensky having the ability to act autonomously, without the direction of the State Department, a Chinese peace plan is impossible.

Zelensky is in a very difficult position himself, as he has effectively signed the death warrant of hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians for reasons that could not be explained to a rational adult with an average IQ.

Taking on the narrative of “take back Crimea” – even whilst the Americans are saying this is impossible – has taken it into Puff the Magic Dragon territory.

This nigga is frolicking in the autumn mist in a land called Honah Lee while continuing to send tens of thousands of untrained randos he pulled off the street to die in “Bakhmut,” a city already effectively under the full control of Russia.

If Zelensky is killed or flees the country, there’s someone in the Ukraine government who would bring in Xi to clean this shit up. Otherwise, the best we can hope for is a North/South Korea type scenario, where both sides are able to claim victory, and the US moves on to their lunatic plot to start a war with the Chinese.