Comments by "Meh Pluribus Unum" (@pluribus_unum) on "Zelensky slams Kissinger's peace proposals that ‘appease’ Russia" video.

  1. Henry Kissinger is the guy who told President Carter that if he didn't let the corrupt U.S. puppet, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (the former Shah of Iran) into the U.S. for likely life-saving cancer treatment, that he would be able to, and would, kill the SALT nuclear weapons control agreement treaty ratification in the Senate. Carter caved, understandably. The revolution and the taking of the U.S. Embassy and its occupants as hostages followed. "That point of decision has most often been explained as a spontaneous, compassionate response to a medical emergency. But, examined in the light of interviews with more than 50 people who played a part, it emerges as a much more complicated act. It reflected a calculated political gamble taken in response to highpressure lobbying within and outside the Administration and with an eye on the upcoming Presidential campaign. And it led directly to the trauma of the following weeks and months: the seizure of the American hostages in Teheran (see ''How a Sit-In Turned Into a Siege,'' page 54), the shattering of relations between the United States and Iran, the altering of strategic realities in the oil-rich Persian Gulf." ""What made Kissinger's intervention particularly sensitive was the fact that it came just as the Administration was completing the second Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty talks with the Soviet Union and preparing for what it expected to be the biggest political battle of Carter's first term. The President knew that Kissinger's position on SALT would influence the outcome of the ratification debate in the Senate. Both men say they never linked the two subjects in their discussions about the Shah, but explicit linkage was hardly necessary. ''SALT,'' Hamilton Jordan, White House chief of staff, observed later, ''was the background for all our discussions in those days.''" "When David Rockefeller made that April 9 visit to the Oval Office, he said recently, ''I had some other matters I wanted to discuss with the President, and as we stood up, at the end of the conversation, I told him of my concern that a friend of the United States should be treated in such a way and said I felt he should be admitted and we should take whatever steps were necessary to deal with the threats (to the Teheran embassy). I didn't tell him how to deal with it, but I said it seemed to me that a great power such as ours should not submit to blackmail.''"
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