Henry A. Kissinger Quotes
Whenever there is a new Soviet leader, our experts speculate about the changes as if one man could change a whole society. In their system, power doesn't come with the office. It takes many years to acquire.
Henry A. Kissinger, U.S. Secretary of State (Republican), U.S. National Security Advisor, Remark, July, 1984
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Many of the major new technology companies of America initially wanted nothing from government and didn’t want government to interfere with their efforts. They initially did no donate to political campaigns or hire lobbyists. But because of their amazing success, they transformed American and world society, threatened and damaged vested interests and became the focus of government attention. And soon the began to play the game but unlike their technologies at which there were masterful, they were not as skilled and adroit at politics. In a number of c cases they challenged the United States government both directly and indirectly by changing facts on the ground in America, and when government was most needed to work out new rules of the road for the nation with the new technologies, the U. S. Congress was gridlocked and totally dysfucntional.
Johansson is describing the origin of the word “hegemony.” During the 5th Century B.C. Athens and their allies formed the Delian League to combat the Persian Empire. Athens, as the most powerful city-state in Ancient Greece, controlled the alliance and the League soon turned into the Athenian “empire” or “hegemony.”
He was referring to Russian elections. The reasons that elections in Russia are not necessary for legitimizing state power to be used by the current government, is that from the early days of the Russian Czars, the tradition and culture assumed that if there is a threat to "Mother Russia", everyone and everything in the state is at the disposal of the government, no matter who is in power. It is so strongly embedded in the culture that although many Russians want fee elections and the right to choose their leaders, they have no question that the government alway has the right and duty to marshall amm the human and physical resources to protect the state, See Quotation 644072 for more on this imporatnt concept in Russia.
Henry Alfred Kissinger KCMG is an American politician, diplomat, and geopolitical consultant who served as United States Secretary of State and National Security Advisor under the presidential administrations of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. A Jewish refugee who fled Nazi Germany with his family in 1938, he became National Security Advisor in 1969 and U.S. Secretary of State in 1973. For his actions negotiating a ceasefire in Vietnam, Kissinger received the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize under controversial circumstances, with two members of the committee resigning in protest.
