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A Historian Of The Future: Five More Questions For Stephen Kotkin | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution

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Did Henry Kissinger Really Do That?

In some ways, he's a John Kerry figure, right? He was for it until he was against it, as they said. And Henry Kissinger also, there are things in Henry's career, Dr. Kissinger, excuse me, which are just you marvel at and then there are some other things which you wonder, did he really do that? So, reducing the scope of Soviet influence in the Mideast, squeezing the Soviets out of the Middle East, that was pretty breathtaking. Unbelievable lesson there for us today. How does that look in the fullness of time, the Nixon, Kissinger triangulation of the Sino-Soviet split so that we could peel the

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