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Kissinger's Strategy for Real Politics
The two strategic elements of Kissinger's way of thinking about real politic are to say, first of all, you figure out who your allies are and you build webs of connection. The second element is not to go to war with your adversary, but to do all you can to limit the power of your adversary. This makes Western Europe crucially important in building these webs. You build your surrogates. You build brother states in other parts of the world. You build tight connections and you work together to control the resources that you want.