Kissinger dead at 100

[HMD]

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/dr-henry-kissinger-dies-at-age-100-302001393.html

[PurpleTree]

Damn finally

read a book once about him from christopher hitchins

the guy was shady

He did this interview with a german station a few weeks ago

anyway, powerful guy, goodbye henry

[DocWatts]

Would highly recommend the Behind the Bastards podcast about Kissinger, if like me you were unaware of the full extent of this guy's devilry. Growing up I associated him with Richard Nixon and the terrible decision to needlessly extend the Vietnam War for another 5 years, but the totality of his influence on US foreign policy was so much worse than that.
 

 

Edited November 30, 2023 by DocWatts

[Starlight321]

12 hours ago, PurpleTree said:

Damn finally

read a book once about him from christopher hitchins

the guy was shady

He did this interview with a german station a few weeks ago

anyway, powerful guy, goodbye henry

Even though he has a lot of experience through his whole life and wisdom, I think that his mind is frozen in the 60s and did so many horrible things with his conspiracies and toughness.

However, rest in peace..

@DocWattsthx, I'm right now watching part three. omg he seems to have sociopathic traits and a notorious lyer.. far worse than what I expacted.

The moderators are very well informed. Do you watch them regularly?

 

Edited December 1, 2023 by Starlight321

[bebotalk]

He seemed like a smart guy. Though as he was in Nixon's Cabinet, I'm surprised he wasn't implicated in the Watergate affair. I wonder if he fought in WW2, or even served in the Third Reich in some capacity. He was old enough to have done so. 

[DocWatts]

On 12/1/2023 at 0:26 AM, Starlight321 said:

 

@DocWattsthx, I'm right now watching part three. omg he seems to have sociopathic traits and a notorious lyer.. far worse than what I expacted.

The moderators are very well informed. Do you watch them regularly?

Robert Evans (the person who's informing the other two guys on Kissinger's history in that podcast) is a journalist who's covered military conflicts around the world, and has also written about online extremism and political violence. Which is to say he's very well informed about the geopolitical topics he covers on his Bastards podcast. The other two guys are guests, who happen to be comedians that run an American history podcast called The Dollop.

I've listened to both podcasts for years, would highly recommend both.

Edited December 4, 2023 by DocWatts

[PurpleTree]