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Part Four: Kissinger

Behind the Bastards

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Kissenger Says, Congratulations, Mister President, You Saved West Pakistan

Two months after the end of the war, nixon makes his big visit to china. The media eats it up, and suddenly nixon's re election campaign has something to hang their hats on. Ge rendetant with the soviets is announced soon after, right? They do like theyr. It's good. As happens, good things result from it. A during a conversation later that year, kissenger tells his boss, no one has yet understood what we did in india pakistan and how we saved the china option, which we need for the bloody russians. Why should we give a damn about bangladesh? Well, there you go

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