• fusion-obscura@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    This other article lays out many of the amoral things he did: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/henry-kissinger-war-criminal-dead-1234804748/

    Some highlights:

    • sabotaging negotiations to end the Vietnam war to win favor with Nixon’s presidential campaign
    • policy of illegally and secretly bombing Cambodia
    • wiretapped and burgled a bunch of people including journalists to try keep bombing of Cambodia a secret (The Whitehouse Plumbers), led to Watergate
    • policy supporting Indonesia’s invasion/genocide of East Timor
    • policy to overthrow Chile’s democratically elected government to protect US Copper mining profits
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      11 months ago

      There’s also the small little detail about him being responsible, either directly or indirectly, for the deaths of 3-4 million people.