Kissinger a EUA: "Urge tratar Rússia como grande potência".
Former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger has urged the United States to treat Russia as a “great power” and stop making efforts to break it. “Breaking Russia has become an objective [for US officials] the long-range purpose should be to integrate it,” the 92-year-old said during an interview with The National Interest published on Wednesday. “If we treat Russia seriously as a great power, we need at an early stage to determine whether their concerns can be reconciled with our necessities,” he told the policy magazine. Relations between Washington and Moscow have deteriorated over a number of issues, particularly over the unending crisis in Ukraine. Washington accuses Moscow of arming and supporting pro-Russian forces fighting in Ukraine. Russia, however, has denounced the "groundless” accusations and blamed the United States for orchestrating a coup against the government of Viktor Yanukovych, the country’s democratically-elected president. The Kremlin has described Washington’s foreign policy on Ukraine as “aggressive”, saying the policy “fails to meet present-day realities and demonstrates that the United States actually wants to dominate the world.” In his interview, Kissinger accused the American and European governments for failing to recognize the historical context in which the confrontation between Russia and Ukraine started. "The relationship between Ukraine and Russia will always have a special character in the Russian mind,” he said. “It can never be limited to a relationship of two traditional sovereign states, not from the Russian point of view, maybe not even from Ukraine’s. So, what happens in Ukraine cannot be put into a simple formula of applying principles that worked in Western Europe,” the veteran diplomat added.
Kissinger, who served in the administration of former president Richard Nixon, repeated his previous proposal for Ukraine to become a buffer, or a mediator between Russia and the West. Urging the West to stop backing the regime in Kiev at all costs, Kissinger said, “One should at least examine the possibility of some cooperation between the West and Russia in a militarily nonaligned Ukraine.” Analysts have expressed concerns that the rising tensions between the United States and Russia could lead to a catastrophic war. And, some have accused Washington of creating the crisis in Ukraine in order to provoke Russia. Former American lawmaker Ron Paul says the United States is inciting a deadly war against Russia that “could result in total destruction” of both countries. The two-time Republican presidential candidate has made these remarks in his articles published on his website. The growing conflict between the United States and Russia over the Ukraine conflict is a result of Washington struggling to maintain its hegemony and making “extremely provocative moves” in Eastern Europe, according to an American political and economic scholar. “The conflict that Washington has created with Russia is entirely Washington’s doing,” said Paul Craig Roberts, an economist who served as an assistant secretary of the treasury for economic policy in the Ronald Reagan administration. “It’s a serious situation in which the United States is driving Europe into a conflict with Russia, and it’s all about the United States protecting its hegemony, protecting its unique power status,” Dr. Roberts told Press TV on June 26.
"Desintegrar a Rússia tornou-se objetivo estratégico dos EUA".
Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has hit out at American and European Ukraine policy, saying it ignores Russia’s relationship with its neighbor, and has called for cooperation between the White House and the Kremlin on the issue. “Breaking Russia has become an objective [for US officials] the long-range purpose should be to integrate it,” the 92-year-old told The National Interest in a lengthy interview for the policy magazine’s anniversary that touched on most of the world’s most pertinent international issues. “If we treat Russia seriously as a great power, we need at an early stage to determine whether their concerns can be reconciled with our necessities.”
The diplomat, who is most famous for serving in the Nixon administration, and controversially being awarded the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize, for negotiating the Vietnam ceasefire, accused the West of failing to recognize the historical context in which the fallout occurred between Moscow and Kiev. “The relationship between Ukraine and Russia will always have a special character in the Russian mind. It can never be limited to a relationship of two traditional sovereign states, not from the Russian point of view, maybe not even from Ukraine’s. So, what happens in Ukraine cannot be put into a simple formula of applying principles that worked in Western Europe.” Kissinger lays the blame for sparking the conflict at the door of the EU, which proposed a trade deal in 2013, without considering how it would alienate Moscow, and divide the Ukrainian people. “The first mistake was the inadvertent conduct of the European Union. They did not understand the implications of some of their own conditions. Ukrainian domestic politics made it look impossible for [former Ukrainian president Viktor] Yanukovych to accept the EU terms and be reelected or for Russia to view them as purely economic,” said Kissinger.
