A fresh portrait of Henry Kissinger focusing on the fundamental ideas underlying his policies: realism, …
One lesson that Kissinger drew from the West’s trusting, optimistic, wait-and-see policy of appeasement (as we saw in his approach to Salvador Allende) is that “foreign policy builds on quicksand when it disregards actual power relationships and relies on prophecies of another’s intentions.”
— The Inevitability of Tragedy by Barry Gewen (11%)