Born in Germany, planet War II participant
According to a message published by Kissinger's company, he died at his home in Connecticut. He was born in Germany as Heinz Alfred Kissinger in a household of German Jews from Bavaria, emigrated to the United States in 1938, was then a exile from Nazi Germany. He studied in the United States. At the age of 20, he received American citizenship, fought in planet War II in the conflict of Ardeny.
Secretary of State in Nixon Administration
After the war ended, it was carried out in the field of science. He was a polytologist at Harvard, did his PhD erstwhile Richard Nixon won the 1968 presidential election, entered the political elite. He became a national safety advisor, with time advanced and received the position of Secretary of State in the Nixon administration and his successor Gerald Ford (the consequence of the Watergate affair).
Realpolitik supporter
He was a supporter of the alleged "realpolitik", an utmost individualist, disliked collective work, utilized to say about himself: "a cowboy who acts alone." He made cesurias in American-Chinese relations when, at the turn of 1971 and 1972, he contributed to normalization of U.S. diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China, this was the end of a policy of securing the communist regime. Kissinger acted pragmatically and calculatingly, wanting to drive a wedge between the PRC and the USSR to divide the communist camp during the Cold War.
In 1973, in turn, as a consequence of negotiations with Communist North Vietnam, it mostly contributed to the signing of the Paris Agreements which ended the U.S. military intervention in Vietnam. He and North Vietnamese General Le Duc Tho were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, but – interestingly – the Vietnam typical did not accept it. Kissinger had merit in ending the Jom Kippur War in the mediate East and conducted a deescalation policy in relations with the USSR, which, of course, was mostly tense at the time, speaking gently.
Charges against Kissinger
In his actions Kissinger did not avoid controversy. any even accused him of war crimes, considering that a series of bombings in Cambodia and Laos during the Vietnam War resulted in the deaths of many civilians. Another charge was to support the junta in Latin America, Kissinger was to approve the Chilean coup, which dismissed the democratically elected president Allende from power, this State Secretary, according to many, besides urged the Argentine junta to bloody repression under the alleged "dirty war".
Valuable by Political elites
‘America has lost 1 of the most robust and distinctive voices in abroad affairs“ In a message the erstwhile president George W. Bush, who stressed that he valued the advice and relationship of a diplomat.
As far as U.S. Presidents are concerned, only the current Joe Biden did not invitation Kissinger to the White House, and let us point out that at his 100th birthday at the fresh York Public Library the current Secretary of State Antony Blinken was present. Kissinger met with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in July, he was already 100 years old.
Kissinger about the war in Ukraine
Kissinger was accused that initially he did not condemn Russia sufficiently for armed assault on Ukraine:
– The war itself and its conduct are highly ruthless, the attack must be repulsed. Therefore, I support the opposition of the Ukrainians and the West. Russia cannot win said Kissinger. He felt that “It was not wise to combine the admission of all countries of the erstwhile east bloc to NATO with the invitation of Ukraine to join the AllianceIt’s okay. ”
During the war, he radically changed views about Ukraine's status:
– Today I am firmly in favour of Ukraine's admission to NATO after the end of the war. Now that there are no more neutral zones between NATO and Russia, it is better for the West to welcome Ukraine to NATO He said.
– Putin in court? Better not.! – he said, he besides mentioned that stopping war becomes “impossible or much harder if its result is linked to the individual destiny of the political leaderIt’s okay. ”
