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> Secret White House Memo Documented Kissinger's Attitude: "I Don't See Why We Have to Sit Around and Let a Country Go Communist Due to the Irresponsibility of
by Joker_vD 2y ago
> Secret White House Memo Documented Kissinger's Attitude: "I Don't See Why We Have to Sit Around and Let a Country Go Communist Due to the Irresponsibility of its Own People"
There is a saying, attributed to Stalin during the Yalta conference (but it's most definitely apocryphal): "I always thought that 'democracy' means the rule of the people but comrade Roosevelt here quite clearly explained to me that 'democracy' actually means the rule of the U.S. people". It's funny because apparently the top US diplomats and leaders genuinely do believe that.