{"id":17820,"date":"2022-06-01T06:03:42","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T04:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=17820"},"modified":"2022-06-01T06:08:02","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T04:08:02","slug":"difference-between-security-political-intellectualism-and-ignorance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=17820","title":{"rendered":"Difference between <span style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">security<\/span> <span style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">political<\/span> <span style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">intellectualism<\/span> and ignorance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2022\/05\/listen-to-kissinger-and-cias-burns-and-compare-with-populist-platitudes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jan Oberg<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Most people who conducted security politics decades ago were well-educated and experienced compared with most of today\u2019s security political decision-makers.<\/p>\n<p>This overall\u00a0<em>intellectual disarmament<\/em>\u00a0coupled to ever-higher levels of\u00a0<em>military armament<\/em>\u00a0and the recent talk about\u00a0<em>the use of nuclear weapons<\/em> creates a new and extremely dangerous reality for us all.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u03a9\u00a0\u03a9\u00a0\u03a9<\/p>\n<p>Given what they stand for, neither Kissinger nor Burns is \u2013 so to speak \u2013 my cup of tea. However, in an era in which every discourse of peace has disappeared \u2013 or,\u00a0<em>been disappeared<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 perhaps some people might listen to people like Kissinger and Burns whose profession has always been more war than peace \u2013 but on a solid intellectual foundation?<\/p>\n<p>Their cohesive way of reasoning in a low voice \u2013 Kissinger in particular with his world perspective and geo-political professionalism and both with a larger perspective \u2013 contrasts most of those who make security political decisions today who often display a frightening lack of knowledge, conceptual foundation and ability to look at things in a larger perspective \u2013 time as well as space.<\/p>\n<p>There is a clarity of mind growing out of a reservoir of comprehensive knowledge and personal experience.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u03a9\u00a0\u03a9\u00a0\u03a9<\/p>\n<p>Interesting is also Kissinger\u2019s emphasis on how counterproductive it would be \u2013 actually, is \u2013 for the United States to behave in a way that makes Russia and China come more strongly together against the US. One does not get the impression that there are any NATO or EU decision-makers who have looked that far in time and space while meting out the punishment of Russia right after its invasion of Ukraine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan Oberg: Most people who conducted security politics decades ago were well-educated and experienced compared with most of today\u2019s security political decision-makers. This overall\u00a0intellectual disarmament\u00a0coupled to ever-higher levels of\u00a0military armament\u00a0and the recent talk about\u00a0the use of nuclear weapons creates a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=17820\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}