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The Duran Podcast

Henry Kissinger, preserving empire and power

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🗓️ 4 December 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Henry Kissinger, preserving empire and power

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0:00.0

All right, Alexander, let's do a video on the passing away of Henry Kissinger at the age of 100.

0:11.7

So I guess, you know, you're a historian.

0:17.3

I'm sure you followed the life of Kissinger over the decades.

0:26.2

I'm not a fan of Kissinger because he's damaged my country greatly, Cyprus.

0:36.2

So I'm not a fan, but I do realize that he was, I guess you could say, a pragmatist, a realist, I guess. I mean, you know, it's a complicated picture is what I would say, but your thoughts. Your thoughts.

0:54.9

I'm going to actually take issue with the last point.

0:57.8

I don't think Henry Kissinger was anywhere near as complicated a person as many people say he was.

1:05.7

In fact, if you actually look at his career as a whole, and by the way, I remember him well. I mean, I can remember

1:13.0

when he was both Secretary of State and National Security Advisor. And unlike many people,

1:20.9

I've dipped into his books and, you know, the books that he wrote when he was Harvard,

1:25.2

when he was an academic and various things of that kind.

1:28.3

Anyway, for me, a very coherent picture of the sort of person that he was very clearly emerges.

1:37.3

There's a few things to say about Gissiger. Firstly, he was an extremely intelligent man,

1:42.3

and he was a serious scholar of international relations.

1:46.6

He wrote books about international relations and history, from a historical perspective,

1:52.6

when he was at Harvard and when he was an academic.

1:56.4

And they're not a startling insight, I would say.

2:00.5

They're not of the great works of international relations that you would find from some people.

2:05.9

But they are, you know, they're highly competent books.

2:09.1

So he was clever.

2:11.5

He was also, I don't personally think he was much of a realist.

2:16.6

What I would say was he was a rather ruthless

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