Kissinger: Initiative to avoid a third world war

With the Ukrainian war approaching the end of its first year and entering its second, voices began to rise in the West of the need to search for a political settlement that would lead to an armistice or a cease-fire, and to build on strategic variables that would lead to reducing human and material losses to their minimum limits.

The former US Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger wrote an article, Friday, on the British Spectator magazine.

Kissinger, put a title for his article that says, “How to avoid another world war”.

Kissinger’s new ideas were as:

First: Accelerating a cease-fire through negotiations, not being dragged into a third world war, and benefiting from the experience of the First World War and the mistakes made in it that led to its prolongation and the intensification of its losses.

Second: The advent of the harsh winter, and the failure of the two warring parties to resolve militarily, necessitate a diplomatic solution as quickly as possible.

Third: Building on strategic changes and establishing a new structure for Eastern and Central Europe that recognizes Russia as a major nuclear power and integrates it into this structure.

Fourth: Holding a referendum in the five regions annexed by Russia, under the supervision of the United Nations, for the right to self-determination.

Fifth: The First World War was a kind of cultural suicide that destroyed Europe and its status, and the Third World War will complete this destruction, and a treaty similar to the Treaty of Versailles that led to the Second World War should be avoided.

Sixth: Confirmation of Ukraine’s freedom in any future agreement or treaty after reaching peace, along with recognizing Russia’s historical role while recognizing the lie of neutrality after Finland and Sweden joined NATO.

The aforementioned points of Kissinger’s initiative seem different from the first points he put forward at the beginning of the war in Ukraine, and it included a warning of Russia’s defeat, the dangers of this defeat to Europe and the whole world, and the need for Ukraine to make territorial concessions to the Russians in reference to the four regions in its east as well as the Crimea.

However, this initiative came as an indirect confirmation of its first formulation, but with the formulation of Kissinger’s diplomacy.

Kissinger’s initiative is a formulation of what is currently going on behind the scenes of the Western camp, which may lead to its adoption as a platform for peace talks in the new year looking for a way out to end the war, especially since The French President Emmanuel Macron is in the process of conducting negotiations with his counterpart Vladimir Putin in coordination with the White House as soon as possible. Available time.

Ukraine is on the path of destruction, and Europe is rapidly on the path of bankruptcy due to the worsening economic crises, the most prominent of which are the energy crisis, the refugee crisis, and the escalation of human losses among the warring sides, and their supporters, directly or indirectly.

Henry Kissinger, who is reaching his 100 years old, is one of the evidences of the state of political desertification that Western world is experiencing these days.