GFGJewbacca@lemm.ee to News@lemmy.world · 7 months agoHenry Kissinger, former US Secretary of State, dies at 100apnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square20fedilinkarrow-up1160cross-posted to: worldnews@lemmy.mlworld@lemmy.worldworldnews@lemmy.ml
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minus-squarefusion-obscura@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up11·7 months agoThis 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
minus-square11181514@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up8·7 months agoThere’s also the small little detail about him being responsible, either directly or indirectly, for the deaths of 3-4 million people.
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:
There’s also the small little detail about him being responsible, either directly or indirectly, for the deaths of 3-4 million people.