https://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/article/f/kissinger-a-war-criminal-who-served-us-imperialism

Celebrated for his diplomacy, especially over China, his true face was that of a callous murderer with the blood of millions on his hands, writes ANDREW MURRAY

HENRY KISSINGER, the US diplomat associated with some of the worst crimes of the cold war, has died at the age of 100.

He packed his worst offences against humanity into just six of those hundred years, when he served as national security adviser or secretary of state, and sometimes both, to presidents Nixon and Ford from 1969 to 1975.

A Metternich of the 20th century, Kissinger was a practitioner of cynical realpolitik in the service of the interests of US imperialism.

Even after leaving office, he retained considerable influence for decades, advising successive US administrations and various private clients on world affairs.

He is above all associated with the murderous bombing of Cambodia and the first outreach of Washington to socialist China, as well as support for the fascist coup in Chile in 1973, the pursuit of detente-through-strength with the USSR and peripatetic “shuttle diplomacy” during the Yom Kippur war between Israel and Arab states.

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https://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/article/f/kissinger-a-war-criminal-who-served-us-imperialism