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@allafrica Thu, 16 Apr 2026 05:30:09

The Geography of Power and the Price of Ignorance

[Independent (Kampala)] Comment -- When commenting on the 1980-1988 Iraq-Iran war, Henry Kissinger once remarked that it was "a pity both sides can't lose". It was a chilling distillation of a worldview in which distant conflicts are not tragedies to be resolved, but instruments to be managed. Alongside Zbigniew Brzezinski, Kissinger helped shape a half-century of American foreign policy that treated regions like the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and Africa not as homes to peoples but as theatres of strategy.

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