Veteran U.S. diplomat Henry Kissinger has called for a negotiated peace deal in Ukraine amid its invasion from neighboring Russia, in an effort to prevent another devastating world war.
Kissinger, who has met with Russian President Vladimir Putin multiple times since he first became leader of the nation in 2000, made the comments in an opinion piece in The Spectator magazine entitled “How to avoid another world war,” published on Dec. 17.
“I have repeatedly expressed my support for the allied military effort to thwart Russia’s aggression in Ukraine,” Kissinger wrote. “But the time is approaching to build on the strategic changes which have already been accomplished and to integrate them into a new structure towards achieving peace through negotiation.”…