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Neo-con monster, Zbigniew Brzezinski, dies at 89
RT,
27
May, 2017
Zbigniew
Brzezinski, one of the most influential US political thinkers at the
height of the Cold War, has died aged 89, according to his daughter.
The advocate of US hegemony, Brzezinski, authored numerous proposals
to bring down the Soviet Union.
"My
father passed away peacefully tonight," his daughter and MSNBC
anchor Mika Brzezinski wrote. There was no word of the cause of
death.
Arming
the Mujahideen in Afghanistan to bleed the Soviets, transforming Iran
into an anti-Western republic, and the brokering of the Camp David
Accords – are among the main outcomes of his strategies.
Brzezinski
inadvertently helped create Al-Qaeda, when he convinced President
Carter that running a secret CIA program to launch a proxy-war
against the USSR-backed Afghan government was going to “induce a
Soviet military intervention.”
“We
didn’t push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased
the probability that they would,” he said in a 1998 interview with
Le Nouvel Observateur.
“The
day that the Soviets officially crossed the border, I wrote to
President Carter, essentially: 'We now have the opportunity of giving
to the USSR its Vietnam war.'"
“That
secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing
the Russians into the Afghan trap and you want me to regret it?” he
told the interviewer.
“What
is more important in world history? The Taliban or the collapse of
the Soviet empire? Some agitated Moslems or the liberation of Central
Europe and the end of the cold war?”
Less
than four years later, those “agitated Moslems” would destroy the
World Trade Center and damage the Pentagon, setting off the endless
“war on terror” that continues to this day.
As Carter's National Security Advisor #Brzezinski went to Afghanistan with #CIA to fund Osama & #Mujahideen vs #USSR
Brzezinski
was born in Warsaw, Poland, in 1928, according to official biography.
Other sources speculate that he was actually born in a Polish
Consulate in the Ukrainian town of Kharkov, which at the time was
part of the USSR, but his parents registered him as having been born
in Poland and not the Soviet Union.
His
later actions was as if an anti-Soviet agenda was part of his genetic
code from the the day he was born. He graduated from Harvard with a
PhD in political science with a thesis on the formation of a
totalitarian system in the USSR – and became author of a global
strategy on anti-Communism and the concept of a new form of American
hegemony.
“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,” Brzezinski
wrote in his 1998 book The Grand Chessboard.
However,
in one of his latest articles in the American Interest journal the
Polish-born diplomat asserted the US is “no longer the globally
imperial power” and “can only be effective in dealing with the
current Middle Eastern violence if it forges a coalition that
involves, in varying degrees, also Russia and China.”
NEW: Jimmy Carter releases statement following death of Zbigniew Brzezinski, calling him "a superb public servant." http://abcn.ws/2rIn4Jz
In
the sixties, he served as an advisor to the Kennedy and Johnson
administrations and his tough stance towards the Soviet Union never
waned. In the Carter years, Brzezinski became National Security
advisor and was considered the president’s right-hand man. During
the Clinton administration, the hawkish statesman was the main voice
pushing for NATO’s eastward expansion.
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