02 May '19 13:45>
@metal-brain saidNo, I am using the word machiavellianism to mean just that. Psychologists talk about a Dark Triad: Psychopathy, Narcissism and Machiavellianism. Machiavellianism is not a synonym for psychopathy. There are personality disorders associated with the first two, but not the third. Machiavellianism is sub-clinical meaning it does not require treatment.
You are using the term Machiavellianism as a euphemism for psychopath. Kissinger was behind the overthrow of a democracy in Chile and probably the recent coup attempts in Venezuela to also overthrow a democracy.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/crimes-against-humanity-why-is-henry-kissinger-walking-around-free/5358322
https://topdocumentaryfilms.com/the-trials-of-henry-kissinger/
One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin
Further I said that if Kissinger has anything then he has Machiavellianism, but frankly we have no evidence for any kind of psychological issue. I know you think he is evil, but evil is not a medical problem for doctors to cure and those who have personality disorders are not necessarily evil. It is perfectly possible that Kissinger has done all that he has done with a "normal" psychological profile.
Just to reinforce this point - people with the following conditions: Avoidant, Schizotypal and Schizoid personality disorders are, as a rule, harmless and tend to suffer themselves without causing much harm to those around them. People with Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder - the egosyntonic variant of OCD - are great workers - they want to work 12 hours a day six days a week. The problem is they don't understand why anyone else wouldn't so they can make awful bosses.
We do have some evidence that Assange is a narcissist. Not enough to diagnose him, and we aren't qualified to anyway, but it's interesting to talk about. One thing Assange is simply not responsible for is his own narcissism. Suppose for argument's sake that he does indeed have narcissistic personality disorder. Then he will have started developing this from an early age as his parents relationship started to fall apart. Again for argument's sake he was seven. He simply did not have the mental equipment at the time to defend against it. Once he has the condition then he's just going to regard himself as psychologically normal, but clearly such a genius that he is the only one who can save Mankind from the evil Western Governments. What he is responsible for, if the accusation is true, is the rape in Sweden. He has the cognitive equipment to understand that he does not have consent to attempt to have sex with a sleeping woman and is therefore responsible for that.
It's not obvious to me that someone who attempts espionage against the U.S. from a foreign country has committed a crime the US has jurisdiction over. It is somewhere between possible and likely that whichever country he was in at the time he conspired with Bradley Manning (now Chelsea) has legislation making it illegal to attempt freelance espionage operations in their country and, if so, I would have thought that they were the relevant prosecuting authority.