Henry Kissinger, War Criminal Beloved by America’s Ruling Class, Finally Dies

Rolling Stone isn’t holding back in their obituary of Henry Kissenger, who died last week at the age of 100.

As US national security advisor and secretary of state to Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, Rolling Stone tells a story which situates the responsibility for the deaths of millions of people on Kissenger.

It’s always valuable to hear the reverent tones with which American elites speak of their monsters.

One major part of this was his role in deliberately undermining the potential for an earlier agreement to finish the catastrophic Vietnam war, seemingly on the basis that it might make it harder for his preferred candidate to win the US presidency.

Every single person who died in Vietnam between autumn 1968 and the Fall of Saigon — and all who died in Laos and Cambodia, where Nixon and Kissinger secretly expanded the war within months of taking office, as well as all who died in the aftermath, like the Cambodian genocide their destabilization set into motion — died because of Henry Kissinger.

For it seems like power was Kissenger’s primary motivation. Power for himself, for his President, and for America, at any cost.

The point was American geopolitical dominance, something measured in impunity and achieved by any means necessary.