Kissinger, a longtime Putin confidant, sidles up to Trump

[applegrove]

Kissinger, a longtime Putin confidant, sidles up to Trump

By NAHAL TOOSI and ISAAC ARNSDORF at Politico

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/trump-kissinger-russia-putin-232925

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Back in the 1990s, Henry Kissinger, the legendary former U.S. secretary of state-turned-global consultant, encountered an intriguing young Russian and proceeded to ask him a litany of questions about his background.

“I worked in intelligence,” Vladimir Putin finally told him, according to “First Person,” a 2000 autobiography cobbled together from hours of interviews with the then-unfamiliar Russian leader. To which Kissinger replied: “All decent people got their start in intelligence. I did, too.”


As Putin climbed the ranks in the Kremlin, eventually becoming the autocratic president he is today, he and Kissinger kept up a warm rapport even as the United States and Russia grew further apart. Kissinger is one of the few Americans to meet frequently with Putin, one former U.S. ambassador recently recalled -- along with movie star Steven Seagal and ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson, the likely next secretary of state.

Now, as Donald Trump signals that he wants a more cooperative relationship with Moscow, the 93-year-old Kissinger is positioning himself as a potential intermediary — meeting with the president-elect in private and flattering him in public. Like Trump, Kissinger has also cast doubt on intelligence agencies’ conclusion that Russia sought to sway the election in Trump's favor, telling a recent interviewer: “They were hacking, but the use they allegedly made of this hacking eludes me.”


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[malaise]

1. Kissinger should be locked up in the Hague

He is a war criminal

[roamer65]

8. Hell yeah. U got that one right, malaise.

[truebluegreen]

2. OT but guess who else regarded him as a mentor?

He is a war criminal and yet he continues to circulate and spread his toxins.

[deminks]

3. Henry is an opportunistic bottom feeder.

It's the holidays. I am being nice.

[MANative]

4. It is apparently true that only the good die young, since this SOB is still breathing. n/t

[otohara]

5. Who Saw All The Hillary/Kissenger Memes?

as if Hillary was going to get on board with Kissenger the minute she became POTUS.

[applegrove]

6. I remember those. Good point. But I suggest some of those putting out anti-hillary memes

at the time were GOP trolls. They knew it would hurt.

[otohara]

7. No Trolls On My Former FB Page

Sanders supporters gleefully passing them around.