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What's interesting about this?
by Invictus0 3y ago
What's interesting about this?
- woooooo 3y agoIt's a major turning point in geopolitics, involving two political genius war criminals having a remarkably frank and honest exchange of views. They're batting around the idea of Japan going Soviet at one point. I was fascinated.
- ggm 3y agoThere's a hold out Japanese communist movement, from pre ww2 There's also a truly bizarre subculture of pro North Korean longterm Japanese resident people. It would not surprise me that in the 70s anyone in politics could believe a soviet Japan was possible. The Baath party slaughtered the Iraqi communists in the sixties, Indonesia slaughtered The Sukharno supporting communists along with passive support from the UK and Australia and USA, British forces in Malaysia were expelling 40,000 villagers for communist sympathies, communist rebels in the Philippines were firing up, and the Vietnam war embroiled Vietnam, Lao, Cambodia in the same torment. Allende would die in Chile inside the next two years: a Marxist government had been in power for a year.
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- MPlus88 3y ago[dead]
- Invictus0 3y agoFrank and honest? There's so much bullshitting in this convo I can smell it 50 years later. Anyway, my comment was not to say that this is document is stupid but rather "could someone please point out the interesting bits".
- gedy 3y agoAlso that Henry Kissinger is still alive and turned 100 few weeks ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Kissinger https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Kissinger
- DirectorKrennic 3y agoFun fact: Kissinger has lived for so long that Commodore BASIC, SQL, Apple DOS, and the TCP/IP protocol were all created after he retired from government service. Not after he was born, but after he retired.
- secondary_op 3y agoPeople like Kissinger never retire, he still shape our world https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Bilderberg_Conference https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Bilderberg_Conference
- NoMoreNicksLeft 3y agoWhen you're just so damned good at the job that Satan won't let you retire.
- dontupvoteme 3y agoAre you daft? It's two of the greatest/most-importants minds of the 20th century meeting in the post ww2 era. From the western side - Kissinger is arguably right up there with Machiavelli, his influence is immutable. and Mao sort of made modern china.
- samstave 3y agoYou left out the Evil multiplier. These are also two of the most vile things to live in the last 500 years. Their great minds are what allowed them to get away with the murder hundreds of millions.
- cryptonector 3y agoThat doesn't make these memos not interesting. Quite the contrary!
- samstave 3y agoI didnt claim that, yes these evil POSs are fascinating, but that doesnt make them any less despicable :-)
- dang 3y agoHey, please omit swipes from your HN posts. Your comment would be fine without that first bit. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
- cryptonector 3y agoI don't think u/dontupvoteme meant it the way you took it. "Are you daft?" didn't come across as a swipe but as a bit of a British-like exclamation on their point. Could be a language thing.
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- totetsu 3y ago> What brings us together is a recognition of a new situation in the world and a recognition on our part that what is important is not a nation's internal political philosophy. What is important is its policy toward the rest of the world and toward us
- sfmike 3y agoThese men had the ability to make a whimsical comment that might snowball into absolute government policy for decades(centuries) to come that sort of butterfly effect is intriguing and not commonplace.