Henry Kissinger
Title: Henry Kissinger (Mass Murderer)
Subject: U.S. Foreign Policy, Henry Kissinger, and War Crimes
Created: 2023
Medium: Graphic Design
Software: Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop CC
Dimensions: 36″x48″
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“The Yale University historian Greg Grandin, author of the biography Kissinger’s Shadow, estimates that Kissinger’s actions from 1969 through 1976, a period of eight brief years when Kissinger made Richard Nixon’s and then Gerald Ford’s foreign policy as national security adviser and secretary of state, meant the end of between three and four million people. That includes “crimes of commission,” he explained, as in Cambodia and Chile, and omission, like greenlighting Indonesia’s bloodshed in East Timor; Pakistan’s bloodshed in Bangladesh; and the inauguration of an American tradition of using and then abandoning the Kurds.
“The Cubans say there is no evil that lasts a hundred years, and Kissinger is making a run to prove them wrong,” Grandin told Rolling Stone not long before Kissinger died. “There is no doubt he’ll be hailed as a geopolitical grand strategist, even though he bungled most crises, leading to escalation. He’ll get credit for opening China, but that was De Gaulle’s original idea and initiative. He’ll be praised for detente, and that was a success, but he undermined his own legacy by aligning with the neocons. And of course, he’ll get off scot free from Watergate, even though his obsession with Daniel Ellsberg really drove the crime.””
– Rolling Stone, Henry Kissinger, War Criminal Beloved by America’s Ruling Class, Finally Dies
“Controversial former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger died Wednesday at the age of 100, according to a statement made by Kissinger Associates Inc., his geopolitical consulting firm.
With 50-plus years in American foreign policy, the German-born politician advised 12 presidents from John F. Kennedy to Joe Biden. He was secretary of state for Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford in the 1970s.
Many of his decisions while involved in the American government have ramifications to this day in various countries. While Kissinger is praised for his efforts for peace in the Middle East and negotiating a ceasefire for the Vietnam War, the latter of which earned him a Nobel Peace Prize, many Americans called for him to be arrested for war crimes. Bernie Sanders has even accused Kissinger of creating “one of the worst genocides in the history of the world”.”
– The Mirror US, Five Henry Kissinger ‘war crimes’ explained – including ‘world’s worst genocide’
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