OTS - stern magazine exclusive: Henry Kissinger argues against a coup against Putin: "It is likely that a peace agreement will have to be made with Putin" - but the West should not "tolerate" a Russian nuclear threat
2022. June 28. 11:22
Hamburg, Germany, 28 June, 2022 (APA/OTS) - Former US-Secretary
Henry Kissinger advocated in an interview with stern magazine for
continuing the dialogue with Russa and with President Wladimir
Putin. Kissinger said: "The war will end someday. After the war the
relationship of Ukraine to Russia will have to be redefined. The
relationship of Europe to Russia will also have to be redefined at
the end of the war because Russia will continue to play an
important factor in international relations. But if Russia were to
dissolve as a result of the war, the chaos that would exist in
Central Asia and in the Middle East would be another disturbing
element."
Answering the question if peace will only be possible after
Putin has been removed, he said: "It's likely that the agreement
will have to be made with Putin. If Putin were to be overthrown, it
would certainly ease the negotiations. But when all the other
objectives are achieved and you continue the war for the purpose of
overthrowing Putin, that would in my opinion not have public
support no matter how unpopular Putin is at the moment."
Kissinger said furthermore: "It is a very fragile situation
when two nuclear powers are contesting over a non-nuclear power's
territory. With the respect of the use of the threat of nuclear
weapons by Russia we cannot possibly yield to that. For two
reasons. First, the irony of the historic evolution since World War
2 is that enormous sums were spent on nuclear weapons, they have
been refined many times, and yet no country has been willing to use
them because they didn't know how to control the consequences. So,
if Putin, if Russia crossed that line, that has to be rebuffed. It
can't be tolerated that a settlement is made under a nuclear threat
because it would change the world.
You can find the full interview here: https://ots.de/v85nAa
Interview was conducted by: Gregor Peter Schmitz, Jan Christoph
Wiechmann
Contact: Oliver Creutz creutz.oliver@stern.de +49 40 3703 7248
or fuchs.cornelia@stern.de +49 151 64955043
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