- 06/15/2025 - I’m beginning Chapter 11 and Stockwell is rolling right along now lots of disclosures, articles and footnotes cited. I’m enjoying the ride. - I’m reminded I started this journey initially reading Kissinger because I wanted to know more about foreign policy and I thoroughly enjoyed Kissinger’s books “Diplomacy” and World Order only later did I realize I would inevitably run smack into the CIA. 😂 - Now I’m intrigued that Stockwell seems still not to grasp that the big picture is about a balanced of power and the realpolitik worldviews of Kissinger and the American Presidency at least throughout the era he’s covering. To them that’s not about winning a war especially in Africa it’s about assuring no one get the upper hand in the ongoing extraction business there “Especially Not Russia” - Moreover, he doesn’t seem to see or perhaps he’s playing naïve to point readers in the right direction, that South Africa has a natural appeal as a trusted agent as a capitalistic extractionist with years of experience and they’re more comfortable with white Europeans at least because they see them as superior and trustworthy. Nixon himself having noted that they’re recently down from the trees. In any case he manages to make that point clear to the discerning reader.
- I’m beginning Chapter 11 and Stockwell is rolling right along now lots of disclosures, articles and footnotes cited. I’m enjoying the ride.
- I’m reminded I started this journey initially reading Kissinger because I wanted to know more about foreign policy and I thoroughly enjoyed Kissinger’s books “Diplomacy” and World Order only later did I realize I would inevitably run smack into the CIA. 😂
- Now I’m intrigued that Stockwell seems still not to grasp that the big picture is about a balanced of power and the realpolitik worldviews of Kissinger and the American Presidency at least throughout the era he’s covering. To them that’s not about winning a war especially in Africa it’s about assuring no one get the upper hand in the ongoing extraction business there “Especially Not Russia”
- Moreover, he doesn’t seem to see or perhaps he’s playing naïve to point readers in the right direction, that South Africa has a natural appeal as a trusted agent as a capitalistic extractionist with years of experience and they’re more comfortable with white Europeans at least because they see them as superior and trustworthy. Nixon himself having noted that they’re recently down from the trees. In any case he manages to make that point clear to the discerning reader.