The Coronavirus Pandemic Will Forever Alter the World Order

By Henry A. Kissinger

(Suggestion by Dr Constantinos Adamides)

Crises have a way of separating the leader-like wheat from the opportunistic chaff. So who’s leading and who’s seeking political advantage?

The surreal atmosphere of the Covid-19 pandemic calls to mind how I felt as a young man in the 84th Infantry Division during the Battle of the Bulge. Now, as in late 1944, there is a sense of inchoate danger, aimed not at any particular person, but striking randomly and with devastation. But there is an important difference between that faraway time and ours. American endurance then was fortified by an ultimate national purpose. Now, in a divided country, efficient and farsighted government is necessary to overcome obstacles unprecedented in magnitude and global scope.

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