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Henry Kissinger, secretary of state under Presidents Nixon and Ford, dies at 100 (apnews.com)

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[–] mlg@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Sometimes, I wonder what alternative outcome could have happened if Pakistan actually decided to properly fight in Bangladesh and take the USA's backing against India and basically start "Vietnam 2.0" years before Afghanistan.

The population alone would probably have made it easy to surpass the deaths of WWII.