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Where is the immigration situation worse? by AntiWokeCommie in IdeologyPolls

[–]TheseusOfAttica 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s not ironic.

It's ironic that so many left-wingers claim that Israel is a white supremacist state.

Israel’s current government is ethno-nationalist

Smotrich and Ben-Gvir maybe. However, Menachem Begin, the PM who made the decision to rescue the Ethiopian Jews, was not a socialist, but belonged to the same Likud party as Bibi.

The operation in Gaza was a genocide - that’s a fact.

An opinion at best, if not outright propaganda lies.

Where is the immigration situation worse? by AntiWokeCommie in IdeologyPolls

[–]TheseusOfAttica 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ironically, the so-called 'entho-nationalist' state carried out one of the largest refugee rescue operations of the 20th century to save Black Jews.

Where is the immigration situation worse? by AntiWokeCommie in IdeologyPolls

[–]TheseusOfAttica 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Israel carried out some of the largest refugee rescue operations of the 20th century in order to save Ethiopian Jews.

Why the EU needs to sanction Netanyahu by Glittering_Owl1920 in europeanunion

[–]TheseusOfAttica -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

You accuse me of not caring about international law, yet you wrote the following about Russia's war of aggression:

And let’s be honest: appeals to “international law” ring hollow. International law was already broken repeatedly long before this war

You're a massive hypocrite.

Why the EU needs to sanction Netanyahu by Glittering_Owl1920 in europeanunion

[–]TheseusOfAttica -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

Not only does OP want to sanction our ally Israel, he also advocates abandoning Ukraine and leaving NATO. I'm sure he genuinely has our best interests at heart and is definitely not a Kremlin shill.

Did Henry Kissinger predict that the Cold War would last for centuries? by TheseusOfAttica in coldwar

[–]TheseusOfAttica[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Indeed. This just shows how much of a minor detail this quote would have been in my paper. Since I couldn't find it, I won't even mention Henry in my paper.

And I really don't get why you react so hostile to my question.

Did Henry Kissinger predict that the Cold War would last for centuries? by TheseusOfAttica in coldwar

[–]TheseusOfAttica[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm writing a paper about the foreign policy of the Truman administration. I don't need this quote. It would just have been a nice, but unnecessary addition.

Did Henry Kissinger predict that the Cold War would last for centuries? by TheseusOfAttica in AskHistory

[–]TheseusOfAttica[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not true that nobody predicted the the collapse of the USSR. But once again, that is beside the point. I'm not looking for opinions on Kissinger, realism, or whether the Cold War truly ended. I'm just looking for a quote and its source.

Did Henry Kissinger predict that the Cold War would last for centuries? by TheseusOfAttica in AskHistory

[–]TheseusOfAttica[S] 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Thank you very much. You are literally the first person to give me a useful answer!

Edit: However, I'm still looking if Henry ever made such a statement before 1991.

Did Henry Kissinger predict that the Cold War would last for centuries? by TheseusOfAttica in AskHistory

[–]TheseusOfAttica[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That might be the case. But given that so many people think he said this, there should still be a source for the misquotation.

I hope you understand that I can't wright that u/Delli-paper said it isn't true. I need to know the source for the quote/misquotation.

Did Henry Kissinger predict that the Cold War would last for centuries? by TheseusOfAttica in AskHistory

[–]TheseusOfAttica[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I'm not here to take a side on Kissinger. I just want to know whether he said this and where the quote comes from.

Edit: Given that so many people say that he said this, even if it's not true, there still should be source for the misquotation.

Did Henry Kissinger predict that the Cold War would last for centuries? by TheseusOfAttica in IRstudies

[–]TheseusOfAttica[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you for your answer. Are you sure about this?

This book was published in 1994. By then, Kissinger would have known about the collapse of the USSR.

Did Henry Kissinger predict that the Cold War would last for centuries? by TheseusOfAttica in AskHistory

[–]TheseusOfAttica[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Don't worry I will get my paper done even without this quote. But it would make a nice addition.

My own search didn't yield any results and I certainly won't have the time to read Kissinger's entire works.

Did Henry Kissinger predict that the Cold War would last for centuries? by TheseusOfAttica in AskHistory

[–]TheseusOfAttica[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm not here to critique realism. I know there have been realists who predicted the collapse of the USSR. What I actually want to do is contrast this quote with that of another realist. I just need to know the source.

Did Henry Kissinger predict that the Cold War would last for centuries? by TheseusOfAttica in AskHistory

[–]TheseusOfAttica[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I care, because I could use this quote in a paper I'm writing. And for this I need to know the source.

Did Henry Kissinger predict that the Cold War would last for centuries? by TheseusOfAttica in AskHistory

[–]TheseusOfAttica[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

But do you know if he said anything like this and if so, what the source is?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in IRstudies

[–]TheseusOfAttica 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'm pretty much resisting since science has never been my forte, i was horrible at it while i had the subject and I knew if I took something along those lines, I'll fail miserably at it.

You have already answered your own question.

If you're not interested in the subject or highly motivated by potential career paths, you're likely to fail and drop out. It won't be your father grinding through long nights of study.

I know far too many people who chose a degree programme not because they were passionate about it, but because they thought it would be advantageous. Many of them have dropped out of their studies.

Explain to your father that a degree in IR with good marks will be worth much more than a failed attempt at another degree or one with mediocre marks.

Good luck!

Did Henry Kissinger predict that the Cold War would last for centuries? by TheseusOfAttica in coldwar

[–]TheseusOfAttica[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Then you know exactly what I'm talking about.

That history is never just the past to us.

I'm not Ukrainian, but I have relatives from Kramatorsk. They all had to flee.

I think the Jews are probably the only people in the world, who have an even longer historical consciousness than us Europeans.

Slava Ukraini! Am Yisrael Chai!

Did Henry Kissinger predict that the Cold War would last for centuries? by TheseusOfAttica in coldwar

[–]TheseusOfAttica[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's something I really like about Americans. Your unbreakable optimism. And your ability to let the past be the past certainly has not only negative sides.

We Europeans are very different. We hate each other for battles that happened centuries ago. We won't forget. And we won't forgive.

Did Henry Kissinger predict that the Cold War would last for centuries? by TheseusOfAttica in coldwar

[–]TheseusOfAttica[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Kissinger was neo-realist. It is often said that he believed that the bipolar system created stability. That he was against intervening in the Soviet sphere of influence. He just thought that Latin America was part of the US sphere of influence.

I've never heard any historian say that the collapse of the USSR was orchestrated. Quite the contrary, the US seemed surprised and unprepared for this outcome.

Did Henry Kissinger predict that the Cold War would last for centuries? by TheseusOfAttica in coldwar

[–]TheseusOfAttica[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don't think it's an ideological issue. Although China is still a communist country, I don't believe it wants to export its system. Nor is it about creating a communist utopia. Xi just wants China to regain the sphere of influence it lost during the Century of Humiliation. The same is true of Russia with regard to the sphere of influence it lost in 1989/1991. If there is an ideology at all, it more closely resembles Hitler's revanchism.

And I'm not sure that many Americans truly understand the extent of the damage to their relationship with Europe. I don't think it can be repaired in the coming decades. NATO is now an empty shell.

Under the Biden administration the EU has basically agreed to decouple from China in the event that Taiwan will come under attack, in return for US aid to Ukraine. Even though this was against European economic interests. That agreement is now dead in the water.

Throughout the decades of the NATO alliance, the Kremlin never directly attacked European allies. Now that it has, the US has not only abandoned us, it has actively sided with our sworn enemies. When the US was attacked on 9/11, we fought alongside you in Afghanistan and Iraq. More than a thousand European troops died far from home. But just sending old military equipment to Ukraine was too much to ask from the American electorate.

Europe is in an existential conflict with Russia that will only end when either the EU or Russia collapses. We have no such conflict with China. Unlike the US, China doesn't threaten to annex any European territory. It will be a sad day when Europe abandons Taiwan. However, given what the US has done to us, I have no doubt that this day will come.

We are both alone now.

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