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Depends on perspective I suppose. Lots of people in Russia, for instance, feel this way about Gorbachev. Putin even denied him a state funeral.

Bush is probably a contender.

Churchill?

As a British person, I’m thankful to Churchill that I’m not typing this response in German.

It's possible for a human to have done both very good and very bad things, yes.

The neocons? Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Kagans, Nuland, Bolton, et al.

In terms of stopping ongoing and future conflicts, this is the group we need to hold accountable. Not Kissinger, whom they hate(d), and hasn't been making policy for decades.