Only second to Iran-Contra in the list of worst Contras
Also I got around to looking into CP more, and what do you know, used to be some 4chan adjacent determinist atheist edgelord back in the day. Of course people can change but it’s all a bit too much on the nose.
Yep, and it’s also why someone like a Kissinger is so revolting - it’s US hegemony above all else. Here’s an excerpt from a Politico piece a few years ago, detailing Kissinger’s relativism:
For instance, Kissinger’s five year bombing of Cambodia (which, by credible estimates, killed 100,000 civilians), along with his “savage” (Kissinger’s word) bombing of North Vietnam, was motivated by the opposite of realism: to try to bring about a world Kissinger believed he ought to live in (one in which he could, by the force of military power, bend peasant-poor countries like Cambodia, Laos and North Vietnam to his will) rather than reflect the real world they did live in: one in which, try as he might, he was unable to terrorize weaker nations into submission. “I refused to believe that a little fourth-rate power like North Vietnam does not have a breaking point,” Kissinger once complained.
“Thanks Putin” has become the lib version of “Thanks Obama”