In order to justify and reinforce the power structure that hurts us, we are taught to glorify psychopaths, war criminals, and profiteering/antilogical/misanthropic toadies (1) Henry Kissinger
"He had the blood of at least 3 million people on his hands"... "A deeper shame attaches to the country that celebrates him"
He’s finally dead, but his actions killed and injured millions of people; this is why he won the ultimate puppet-to-power award: the Nobel Peace Prize.
“Henry Kissinger, War Criminal Beloved by America’s Ruling Class, Finally Dies: The infamy of Nixon's foreign-policy architect sits, eternally, beside that of history's worst mass murderers. A deeper shame attaches to the country that celebrates him.”1
The Dirty War was started, where political opponents were killed, tortured, or just disappeared forever. Kissinger provided a "green light" to this violent strategy.2
“Even the most generous calculations suggest that the murderous regimes Kissinger supported and the conflicts they waged were responsible for millions of deaths and millions of other human rights abuses…”3
“During his time in charge of the American foreign policy machine, Kissinger also directed illegal arms sales to Pakistan as it carried out a brutal crackdown on its Bengali population in 1971. He supported the 1973 military coup that overthrew a democratically elected socialist government in Chile, gave the go-ahead to Indonesia’s 1975 invasion of East Timor, and backed Argentina’s repressive military dictatorship as it launched its “dirty war” against dissenters and leftists in 1976. His policies during the Ford administration also fueled civil wars in Africa, most notably in Angola. Even the most generous calculations suggest that the murderous regimes Kissinger supported and the conflicts they waged were responsible for millions of deaths and millions of other human rights abuses, during and after the eight years he served in the American government.” https://www.huffpost.com/entry/henry-kissinger-dies_n_6376933ae4b0afce046cb44f
"Argentina: America loved to meddle in Latin American politics during the late 1900s, and this wasn't any different in Argentina. In March 1976, a neo-fascist military junta overthrew the socialist president at the time. The Dirty War was started, where political opponents were killed, tortured, or just disappeared forever. Kissinger provided a "green light" to this violent strategy." https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/five-henry-kissinger-war-crimes-explained-including-worlds-worst-genocide/ar-AA1kLI9W
“Kissinger helped prolong the Vietnam War and expand that conflict into neutral Cambodia; facilitated genocides in Cambodia, East Timor, and Bangladesh; accelerated civil wars in southern Africa; and supported coups and death squads throughout Latin America. He had the blood of at least 3 million people on his hands, according to his biographer Greg Grandin.” https://theintercept.com/2023/11/29/henry-kissinger-death/
“Kissinger Associates was an early player in the wave of privatizations that took place after the end of the Cold War—in the former Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and Latin America—helping to create a new international oligarchic class. Kissinger had used the contacts he made as a public official to found one of the most lucrative firms in the world. Then, having escaped the taint of Watergate, he used his reputation as a foreign policy sage to influence public debate—to the benefit, we can assume, of his clients. Kissinger was an eager advocate of both Gulf Wars, and he worked closely with President Clinton to push NAFTA through Congress.” https://www.thenation.com/article/world/kissinger-100-crimes-watergate/
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/henry-kissinger-war-criminal-dead-1234804748/
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/five-henry-kissinger-war-crimes-explained-including-worlds-worst-genocide/ar-AA1kLI9W
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/henry-kissinger-dies_n_6376933ae4b0afce046cb44f