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For Kissinger these are inferior countries that should remain located on the doorstep of the North. It matters little if they are democracies or not. It is important not to disrupt the peace and order of the North: of Russia, China and the United States...
More than 50 years ago, there was a tense meeting in Washington between Chile's then foreign minister, Gabriel Valdés, and President Richard Nixon's national security adviser, Henry Kissinger.
Valdes, of the Christian Democratic Party, had been careless enough to tell President Nixon several things to his face: that Latin American countries found it very difficult to do business with the United States, given the great economic disparity; and second that for every dollar of US aid sent to the South, South America was sending $3.8 to the United States.
Nixon was furious and asked Kissinger to summon the Chilean diplomat, which he did the next day.
Kissinger told Valdes that it was "strange" to come to Washington to talk about Latin America when it mattered so little. " Nothing of importance can come from the South ," he is said to have said (in Seymour Hersh's The Price of Power). " History has never been produced in the south ," he continued.
The axis of history, Kissinger said, began in Moscow and moved through Bonn and Washington to Tokyo, and Valdes was simply wasting his time.
Valdes recalled telling Kissinger that he knew "nothing about the South," to which the German-born American diplomat said, " No, and I don't care ." Valdes called him a " Wagnerian German " and " very arrogant ".
But a year after the conversation (in 1970) Kissinger discovered that important things came from the South - actually from the southernmost tip of the world, in Chile. He was surprised to see that a would-be radical socialist, like Salvador Allende, was winning the presidential election.
On Nixon's orders (as many declassified letters have shown), he did everything he could to prevent Allende from being sworn in, including kidnapping the general who defended Chile's constitutional order, (army chief) René Schneider. It was a sloppy move that ended up killing Schneider.
Allende took office, which did not stop Kissinger from trying first to discredit him, then to support the military coup of September 11, 1973. The seizure and bombing of the presidential palace happened exactly 50 years ago, heralding a dictatorship of bloody 15-year-old.
Flashing back to the present, shortly after Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Wagnerian horde invaded Ukraine, Kissinger, now almost 100 years old, stated at the Davos summit what he called a "valid geopolitical" position: that Ukraine is in Russia's sphere of influence and, along with the Baltic states, is located in an area of strategic importance for it.
It's exactly what you'd expect to hear from one of the men behind Allende's overthrow. Ukraine is also the "south" - Russia's southern neighbor - and why not, just like the "cotton picking" south of the United States!
For Kissinger these are inferior countries that should remain located on the doorstep of the North. It matters little if they are democracies or not. It is important not to disturb the peace and order of the North: of Russia, China and the United States.
Those who justify the Russian invasion of Ukraine share Kissinger's disdain for the South. Remember the wishes of "smaller" nations to govern themselves according to democratic rules and the wishes of their majority. They must always look north, as nothing seems to happen in the south. /Adapted "Pamphlet" from "Worldcrunch"
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