Antony Blinken

Antony Blinken
Born	16 April 1962 (aged 61) Yonkers, New York, United States
Political orientation	Neoconservatism
Political party	Democratic

Antony John Blinken (born 16 April 1962) is a Statesian politician and the current U.S. Secretary of State. He described China as the "most serious long-term challenger to the international order."

In the 1980s, Blinken interviewed Henry Kissinger for his Harvard senior thesis about the trans-Siberian pipeline, which the U.S. attempted to sabotage by various unilateral economic means in the early 1980s to prevent the pipeline's construction between Russia and Western Europe. Regarding the pipeline issue, Blinken wrote the 1987 book Ally Versus Ally: America, Europe, and the Siberian Pipeline Crisis in which he explores the inherent and persistent fractures in the Western alliance which stem from the fundamental difference between US and European economic interests in trading with the Eastern Bloc, which he explains are particularly inflamed in peacetime and by megaprojects, such as gas pipelines, and that future megaprojects are likely to raise continued inner tensions among the Western allies.

Disinformation

Blinken claimed that the Soviet Union covered up the 1941 Babi Yar massacre, the largest single massacre of Jews during World War II, in which German Nazis and Ukrainian Nazi collaborators murdered more than 34,000 Jews as well as tens of thousands of Roma and Communists. In reality, while Soviet media didn't place as much emphasis on the Jewish aspect of Babi Yar as it should have when reporting on the tragedy, the Soviets did liberate Babi Yar in 1943 and they did try 15 German policemen for the crime in 1946.