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The Legacy of Henry Kissinger

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Kissinger's Influence on the Transformation of the American Century

Kissinger is both a product and a producer of these changes. He understands how to lean into them at certain moments in ways that will contribute to his power. As I found in my research, he is almost always working for people who have anti-Semitic attitudes. So on the one hand, it's horrible because he's leaning in it in some ways reinforcing these attitudes. On the other hand, he's understanding how to use these attitudes, that he's not going to change in one day. And he would say he's using those attitudes to actually change the behavior of the person with the bad attitudes to support what he sees as better policies.

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