As the title says, who is Henry Kissinger?
I read this from Wikipedia:
"Kissinger pioneered the policy of détente with the Soviet Union, orchestrated an opening of relations with China, engaged in what became known as shuttle diplomacy in the Middle East to end the Yom Kippur War, and negotiated the Paris Peace Accords, which ended American involvement in the Vietnam War. He has also been associated with controversial policies, such as the U.S. bombing of Cambodia during the Vietnam War, U.S. involvement in the 1973 Chilean military coup, a "green light" to Argentina's military junta for their Dirty War, and U.S. support for Pakistan during the Bangladesh Liberation War despite a genocide being perpetrated by Pakistan."
It sounds like he was a bad guy, but I know there's more to the story than that with the collective hate I see for him here on Lemmy.
@Eric_Pollock yeah I can get that it could be confusing.
Most of the mainstream media an political establishment are acting like they lost an okay guy, meanwhile we are acting like we finally lost the second coming of Hitler. Except Kissinger is responsible for more deaths than Hitler iirc.
His in-group protected him for so long, there's a massive disconnect between the mainstream boomer narrative and what most reasonable people think. He was involved in multiple genocides.
Have a read of the Rolling Stone obituary that's doing the rounds, it's a fairly good write-up, though it doesn't go into all of it.