The day after the meeting of the presidents of the United States and Russia in Helsinki, Edward Luce, editor-in-chief of the American newspaper Financial Times, took an exclusive interview with Henry Kissinger, whom we hardly need to introduce to our readers and tell us what a colossal influence he has on world politics.
Such important global figures tell something to the public not every day or even every year, and when they say something, they say according to the principle: we will tell you the truth, only the truth and only one truth, but not the whole truth … Nevertheless, the most important information that no one will ever tell and nowhere in such interviews can always be read between the lines.
In view of the scale of the political weight of his interlocutor, Mr. Edward Luce published a very, very long article, although, for obvious reasons, Mr. Kissinger told him little about the future, so it makes no sense to translate the entire text: 3/4 of it is devoted to organizing a meeting between Luce and Kissinger, the details meetings like “what we ate at lunch” and artistic description of the views from the window of a cozy French restaurant, in which the interview took place.
Kissinger also gave his assessment to some European politicians who seem to be of little interest not only to our readers, but also to Kissinger himself. Therefore, we cite only his quotes, in which Kissinger talks about the future of the United States, Russia and China, about Trump and Putin, about Artificial Intelligence and the era of the New World Order. So:
…. This meeting (the meeting of the US and Russian Presidents) had to take place, I have been promoting it for several years. However, alas, this idea was buried for a long time under the weight of American internal political problems. This is definitely a missed opportunity. Nevertheless, I believe that you need to start somewhere, and in order to start somewhere you need to return to this something, you need a starting point.
…. Look at Syria and Ukraine. They clearly show the unique feature of Russia, in which any radical events resonate almost anywhere in the world. They are almost always perceived by Moscow as a threat, but at the same time they give it a geopolitical chance. Nevertheless, various strong shocks in the world will continue, and I am afraid they will greatly accelerate.
… NATO's mistake is that it imagines some kind of historical evolution that will march through Eurasia. However, NATO does not understand that somewhere on this victorious march they will encounter something completely different from the Western idea of the state. For Russia, this is a challenge to its identity.
…. I do not want to talk too much about Trump now, because now the situation and situation is not quite suitable for this, I will do it later, in a slightly different way. Nevertheless, I think that Donald Trump may be one of those historical figures who appear from time to time, signaling the end of an era and throwing obsolete masks from world politics, that is, forcing everyone to stop pretending. And this fact does not necessarily mean that Donald Trump knows about his mission or is considering some grandiose alternative to everything. Perhaps it will be just a random development of events.
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Edward Luce: What will become of Germany if Trump pulls America out of NATO?
…… In the 1940s, European politicians had a clear understanding of the direction, but now they are poorly aware of where they are going. Now they mostly just want to get out of trouble, although they are not good at it. Some of the great German statesmen recently told me that they have always viewed friction with America as a way to distance themselves from the United States. However, now that such a prospect has actually arisen, the thought of a world where there will no longer be America terrifies German politicians. So it would be quite ironic if the US withdrawal from NATO becomes one of the outcomes of the Trump era. And I cannot say that this is impossible in principle.
…. An alternative to America for Europeans is very unattractive. Separated from the United States by the Atlantic, Europe will turn into an "appendage of Eurasia", in which the Kingdom of China will run everything, which will take on the role of "the main advisor to all mankind." In the meantime, America will become a geopolitical island surrounded by two giant oceans and with its own rules. Its policies will be similar to Victorian Great Britain, which was in itself and did not see itself as part of the European continent.
Edward Luce: Are you worried about the future, but nevertheless, do you believe that there is a possibility that Donald Trump could accidentally scare the world so that we will be forced to invent a new world order based on new rules?
I think we are going through a very, very dark period right now for the whole world. I have held countless summits, but … I can't tell you all about it directly.
At the end of the article, Edward Luce writes that Henry Kissinger is very concerned about Artificial Intelligence, the opinion of which politicians do not ask for, but on which everything now, by and large, in this world rests, and in the event of the outbreak of global hostilities, most likely the machines will accept this or that decision:
“All I can do in my remaining few years is to raise these issues,” says Kissinger. "And I'm not at all sure I have the answers to these questions."
Editor's comment: Henry Kissinger's interview with the Financial Times was published on July 20, but for some unknown reason, only today it began to be widely discussed by American conspiracy theorists.
At first glance, Kissinger does not seem to report anything new, since everyone knows about the possible collapse of NATO, about AI, and everything else. However, the fundamental difference between the interview and this kind of knowledge is that it is one thing when Mr. Donald Tusk broadcasts about the US withdrawal from NATO, and a completely different matter when Mr. Kissinger, who only met with Putin 17 times, talks about the withdrawal USA from the alliance with the words "it is not impossible", that is, "it is not impossible." In the language of diplomacy, this means "the United States will withdraw from the alliance." Kissinger describes the consequences of this in great detail.
The same is the case with "a very gloomy period for the whole world" and about "strong upheavals in the world will continue, and I am afraid they will greatly accelerate." It's one thing if a pastor-conspiracy theorist tells about these shocks and a dark period, who somewhere there saw something, it's another thing when Kissinger talks about it.
On the eve of the last US strike on Syria, which Donald Trump insisted, US Secretary of Defense James Mattis would have been horrified by this idea, resting his hands and feet, since Moscow's reaction was unpredictable and everything could result in the Third World War. Then at 3 o'clock in the morning, Mr. Kissinger arrived at the White House, talked to Mattis, and he immediately gave the order to press the red button. Therefore, if Kissinger said that “strong upheavals in the world will continue, and will greatly accelerate,” then everything will be so.
He also speaks very interestingly about Trump's historic mission, which marks the end of an era. It is possible that Kissinger talked about Trump and something else, as Edward Luce writes "there is a possibility that Donald Trump could accidentally scare us." Kissinger does not say anywhere in the text that Trump will accidentally scare someone, but Edward Luce asks the question that way. Consequently, Kissinger told him somewhere that Trump would scare everyone. This raises the question: well, how will Trump scare us all? Nuclear strike on Tehran?
Finally, a very interesting point about Artificial Intelligence, which conspiracy theorists traditionally consider as an invention of the New World Order. However, as can be seen from the interviews, the New World Order and AI do not have a consensus, and even the architects of the NWO of Artificial Intelligence are a little afraid. Or is Mr. Kissinger just kind of hinting to us that AI might get out of hand and scare the world even more than Donald Trump?
In general, after reading the interviews, many people really have the feeling that the world has really entered a very, very dark and difficult era, in which a lot of incredible things await everyone. So we are following the development of events.
