There's a good reason Henry Kissinger made headlines this week.
, did both. The gnomish 98-year-old ex-diplomat told the assembled elites at the World Economic Forum that Ukraine must make peace by ceding territory to Russia., who likened his fellow victim of European tragedy—both are Jews whose family members perished in the Holocaust—to an appeaser of Nazi aggression in 1938.
One flaw of this thinking is that it ignores the many changes in global politics since a half-century ago, when, as Richard Nixon’s statesman, Kissinger’s “triangulation” allowed him to play Washington’s interests off those of Moscow and Beijing. First, the end of the Cold War and the subsequent diffusion of global power have diminished the leverage of former power centers and blocs. Second, in this more anarchic world, the agency of medium-sized countries can no longer be cavalierly dismissed.
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