New Detente

Anatoli Grushkov: I will miss so very much talking to William.
Jack Ryan: Me too.
Anatoli Grushkov: Perhaps, from time to time, you and I could talk.
Jack Ryan: Yeah, I'd like that.
--The Sum of All Fears

Statesman Henry Kissinger urges the West to cease trying to inflict crushing military and economic defeat of Russia, and suggests that negotiations should begin to head off a more serious, irreversible conflict.

The 98 yr old architect of detente diplomacy posited that these negotiations should shoot for a return to the pre-war status quo. This would include Ukraine accepting a peace deal that ceded formal control of Crimea and also tolerated informal Russian influence in the eastern Donetsk region.

Predictably, Kissinger's recommendations set off the blue check crowd that generally seems dead set on global thermonuclear war. This mindset has been reinforced by a US administration that has failed to talks of any kind toward a negotiated peace.

We can be pretty sure that, if Henry Kissinger were still secretary of state, he would be in the middle of peace talks, seeking to broker a New Detente.