[-] fusion-obscura@kbin.social 10 points 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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