The 99-year-old Henry Kissinger sent a video speech to the meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, expressing his “admiration” for Ukrainian President Zelenskyy, and calling for increased Western military support to Ukraine and its eventual membership in NATO.
“Before this war, I was opposed to the membership of Ukraine in NATO, because I feared it would start exactly the process that we have seen,” Kissinger said. “Now that this process has reached this level, the idea of a neutral Ukraine under these conditions is no longer meaningful…. I believe Ukrainian membership in NATO would be [an] appropriate outcome.”
As he did in an earlier controversial article published by The Spectator on Dec. 17, 2022, Kissinger at Davos called for continuing dialogue with Russia, and opposes the idea of fragmenting Russia. “The destruction of Russia as a state that can pursue its own policies will open up the vast area of its 11 time zones to internal conflict and to outside intervention at the time when there are 15,000 and more nuclear weapons on its territory.… So this is why I believe in dialogue with Russia while the war continues, an end of fighting when the prewar line is reached, and a continuing process of discussion by Europe, America and at that point Russia.”
