Kissinger's About-Face: Now Says Ukraine Should Join NATO

Former secretary of state once advocated for Kyiv to cede land, but was rebuked by the pro-war establishment

FILE: Henry Kissinger seen in 2018. The former secretary of state says Ukraine should be able to join NATO.

Henry Kissinger, the former U.S. secretary of state, became the latest public figure to dramatically change his opinion about the Ukraine War after facing public backlash.

Kissinger, 99, addressed the World Economic Forum in Davos on Tuesday and spoke about the conflict.

“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,” he said. “Now that this process has reached this level, the idea of a neutral Ukraine under these conditions is no longer meaningful.” 

A top Russian security official said in October that a decision by NATO to take Ukraine into the alliance would mean World War III.

“Kyiv is well aware that such a step would mean a guaranteed escalation to a World War III. We must remember: a nuclear conflict will affect absolutely the whole world, and not only Russia and the collective West, but in general, any country on this planet. Its consequences will be catastrophic for all mankind,” Alexander Venediktov, the deputy secretary of Russia’s Security Council, said at the time.

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Shortly after Ukraine reapplied in September, Jake Sullivan, President Biden’s national security adviser, told reporters that it was not the right time. 

Kissinger said: “I believe in dialogue with Russia while the war continues, an end of fighting when the prewar line is reached. I believe this is the way to prevent the war from escalating by raising issues beyond those that existed at the beginning of the war and making them subject to a continuation of military conflict.”

Kissinger, the former secretary of state, said in May that President Volodymyr Zelensky should negotiate for a peaceful resolution and prevent thousands more from dying needlessly.

He said at the time that Ukraine should be willing to cede territory in the peace process. Ukraine has said it will not stop fighting until Russia retreats from the country.

He told the audience in Davos last year that it would be “fatal” for Western countries to disregard Russia's position of power within Europe.

“I hope the Ukrainians will match the heroism they have shown with wisdom,” Kissinger said at the time.

Kissinger’s comments were mocked on social media by “journalists” who -two months ago- didn’t know the difference between Kyiv and a quiche. One even suggested that he should die.

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In November, Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Ukraine may want to consider peace negotiations because the Ukraine War would keep dragging on and, despite gains, “the probability of a Ukrainian military victory, defined as kicking the Russians out of all of Ukraine, to include what they claim is Crimea…is not high, militarily."

His tune changed shortly after and said Russia already lost.

“They’ve lost strategically, they’ve lost operationally and, I repeat, they’ve lost tactically,” he said. “What they’ve tried to do, they’ve failed at. The strategic reframing of their objectives, of their illegal invasion, have all failed, every single one of them.”