Brzezinski gives up on grand chessboard: Will neocons listen?
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In the 35 years since Brzezinski advised Jimmy Carter to use Islamist terrorists (called "Freedom fighters" and "mujahideen" by the NYT) - including Osama bin Laden - to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan .... Democrats* have been following the same pathway since, and ...
The Mideast and North Africa have been turned into a giant smoking ruin,
Terrorist attacks occur all over the globe including the EU and USA,
Immigrants and refugees are swamping the EU,
Kosovo- that darling bastion of western "freedom" created during Bill's fight against ... whatever... has becomes the center of Islamic terrorism in Europe and greatest exporter of fighters to ISIL,
And the USA Treasury is bankrupt.
Not one to let the lessons of history go to waste, Brzezinski has finally given up on a failed strategy.
The Broken Chessboard: Brzezinski Gives Up on Empire
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The main architect of Washington’s plan to rule the world has abandoned the scheme and called for the forging of ties with Russia and China. While Zbigniew Brzezinski’s article in The American Interest titled “Towards a Global Realignment” has largely been ignored by the media, it shows that powerful members of the policymaking establishment no longer believe that Washington will prevail in its quest to extent US hegemony across the Middle East and Asia. Brzezinski, who was the main proponent of this idea and who drew up the blueprint for imperial expansion in his 1997 book The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives, has done an about-face and called for a dramatic revising of the strategy. Here’s an excerpt from the article in the AI:
“As its era of global dominance ends, the United States needs to take the lead in realigning the global power architecture.
Five basic verities regarding the emerging redistribution of global political power and the violent political awakening in the Middle East are signaling the coming of a new global realignment.
The first of these verities is that the United States is still the world’s politically, economically, and militarily most powerful entity but, given complex geopolitical shifts in regional balances, it is no longer the globally imperial power.” (Toward a Global Realignment, Zbigniew Brzezinski, The American Interest)
Repeat: The US is “no longer the globally imperial power.” Compare this assessment to a statement Brzezinski made years earlier in Chessboard when he claimed the US was ” the world’s paramount power.”
“…The last decade of the twentieth century has witnessed a tectonic shift in world affairs. For the first time ever, a non-Eurasian power has emerged not only as a key arbiter of Eurasian power relations but also as the world’s paramount power. The defeat and collapse of the Soviet Union was the final step in the rapid ascendance of a Western Hemisphere power, the United States, as the sole and, indeed, the first truly global power.” (“The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives,” Zbigniew Brzezinski, Basic Books, 1997, p. xiii)
Here’s more from the article in the AI:
“The fact is that there has never been a truly “dominant” global power until the emergence of America on the world scene…..
I dunno. He seems to be forgetting the British Empire, which had a spread perhaps even greater than the American Empire. But I digress...
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The decisive new global reality was the appearance on the world scene of America as simultaneously the richest and militarily the most powerful player. During the latter part of the 20th century no other power even came close. That era is now ending.”
But why is “that era is now ending”? What’s changed since 1997 when Brzezinski referred to the US as the “world’s paramount power”?
Brzezinski points to the rise of Russia and China, the weakness of Europe and the “violent political awakening among post-colonial Muslims” as the proximate [immediate] causes of this sudden reversal. His commNOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Interesting article. I remember how brazen he seemed when that book came out.
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The problem is, Brzezinski set in motion - or at least gave voice to- a "strategy" which can't be throttled back. Right now, so many entities have so many vested interests in continuing full spectrum dominance and control of Eurasia that no matter that Zbiggy pulls back his earlier thoughts, American hegemonists will go forward full-throttle without him.
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I think it's time you disabused yourself of that pleasant little fairy tale about our fearless leaders being some sort of surrogate daddy or mommy, laying awake at night thinking about how to protect the kids. HA! In reality, they're thinking about who to sell them to so that they can get a few more shekels in their pockets.
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Letitia James was booed and heckled at an FDNY ceremony today.
The audience chanted "TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP!"
https://twitter.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1765816826280165615
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