Henry Kissinger, secretary of state under Presidents Nixon and Ford, dies at 100
apnews.com
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, the diplomat with the thick glasses and gravelly voice who dominated foreign policy as the United States extricated itself from Vietnam and broke down barriers with China, died Wednesday, his consulting firm said.
  • fusion-obscura@kbin.social
    11·
    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
    • 11181514@lemm.ee
      8·
      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.