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Part Four: Kissinger

Behind the Bastards

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The Chinese Civil War

Nixon and kissenger were also both looking for a major diplomatic coup that could distract from the fact that they hadn't quite managed to end that whole via nom war thing. There's also some rational self interest in here, i don't think either of these men want to die. They recognize like, well, this could cause a nuclear war that ends all life on earth, including us. We should probably deal with this on a ehe ialy realize that life is act, has purpose once it's there. It just so happens that 19 71 is also a time in which china is willing to sit down with the united states. A mow ance us help negotiating with

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