Zbigniew Brzezinski dies

Kissinger's next perhaps?

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.

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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.”

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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.

Why the Soviets Entered Afghanistan

Western strategy against Russia

As events move very quickly trying to make sense of things is a collective endeavour and so I am grateful for well-considered input.

It is clear that the West is trying to desperately to pull Russia into war with every provocation, but so far is failing. Now we have Brezinski calling for Ukraine to be armed by the West and it looks as if the West is moving mitlitary equipment eastwards.

Make not mistake, these are dangerous time – even more so than in those days in winter 2011 when Mike Ruppert and others of us were convinced that there was going to be war over Iran.

This time it is not Syria or even Iran – war is being brought to Russia's backdoor, and how long they can tolerate these incursions is anyone's guess

I would like to offer these comments by a Facebook friend, Michael Green

Tanks rolling to the East

Trains loaded with tanks and weapons are already rolling. The photos and comments from Vladimir Suchan are posted on my timeline. Brzezinski already knows that. So do Obama and NATO. All they're trying to do is sell it to their people, while keeping the bigger lie from them (America's and NATO's support of Hitler). Moreover, there are reports that Victoria Nuland's good friend "Yats" has already gotten his hands on some very dirty, highly radioactive material. The Right Sector openly declared its intent to do just that a month or so ago. Any allusion to "talks" and "negotiations", therefore, borders on the psychotic.

We all liked Peter, Paul and Mary, but that was then and this is now. Just as we crossed over the tipping point with Fukushima and Climate Change, we have also crossed over the line in the Ukraine. America is, in fact, already at war. Frankly, I have as little interest at this point in hearing from those who would try to sell us on the wonderfulness of "Peace and MLK" as I have in hearing from the Vichy liberal class. Maybe later, yes. But right now, on any number of fronts, we must contend with the inevitabilities.

Our options and decision-points have dwindled now to almost nothing. Right now, we're on a roller coaster car, and it is moving with ever-increasing speed. I, for one, am emphatically not interested in the hospice trope. I am not in any hospice, which is itself a mental construct. I am, rather, in the present moment, which is multidimensional in scope and intimately connected to the process now unfolding. You may have a different calling, and it's to be treated with respect. But mine, as I see it, is mostly to bear witness to the process relating to our time - the time of the Eschaton, so called - an amazing time to be alive, the most amazing in the entire history of sapiens and, quite possibly, the planet.

An impression from a haiku-writing Czech hermit: It seems that the NATO plan was, indeed, to push Russia through the baiting massacres by the fascist junta in Ukraine to intervene militarily in Ukraine in order to "reciprocate" by invading Ukraine from the West, which would most likely include an occupation of Kiev as well as Odessa. NATO has been readying its own invasion force.

_{More tanks for the "eastern" This picture was taken today at the train station Dresden-Friedrichstadt in Germany and left in the direction of the Czech Republic. One month ago 288 cobat tanks had been rolling Austria in the direction on Hungary. All of these tanks are not of 'defensive' type but for heavy attack combat. Unlike the tanks that rolled through Austria, hiding their insignia, these tanks showed German insignia. Western media is lying about the amount of heavy weapons transports eastwards. NATO plans to invade Russia.}

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This is what America's “official organ” (aka the mouthpiece of the elite) is saying. We have heard ad nausem that “Russia is going to invade”, “Russia is going to invade”. Now that it is clear that message has failed the narrative is changing

NATO: Russia Might Achieve Goals in Eastern Ukraine Without Invasion

NY Times,

5 May, 2014

OTTAWA — NATO's top military commander in Europe said on Monday he no longer thought regular Russian troops would enter eastern Ukraine, predicting Moscow could achieve its goals through the unconventional forces stirring up trouble there.

U.S. Air Force General Philip Breedlove said it was a completely false Russian narrative that it was only Ukrainians rebelling in the east of their country, saying it was clear that special forces troops from Russia were operating there as they did in Crimea before its annexation.

"Remember that (Russian President Vladimir) Putin denied their presence and now he has admitted to their presence in Crimea. The same thing will come out of Ukraine as time rolls out," he told a military and diplomatic audience in Ottawa.

"Exactly what we saw in Crimea is being mirrored in eastern Ukraine," added Breedlove.

Russia has massed tens of thousands of troops on its border with eastern Ukraine, prompting fears that Moscow might send ground forces in to protect the rights of ethnic Russians.

Breedlove said that until a week ago, he thought the most likely military response from Russia would be to send in troops to southern Ukraine and secure a land bridge to the peninsula of Crimea - which voted in March to join Russia - before possibly pushing on toward the Black Sea port of Odessa and then further west toward Moldova.

"Today I would tell you I don't think that's the most likely course of action ... I think now that Putin may be able to accomplish his objectives in eastern Ukraine and never go across the border with his forces," he said.

"Now I think probably the most likely course of action is that he will continue doing what he's doing - discrediting the government, creating unrest, trying to set the stage for a separatist movement," and that would make it easier to cement Moscow's military and economic hold on eastern Ukraine, Breedlove added.

"In that case, I think it's the most troublesome for NATO because if the forces do not come across the border, my guess is that many will want to try to quickly go back to business as usual, and I, for one, do not believe annexing Crimea is business as usual."

Shortly before his public remarks, Breedlove discussed Ukraine and Russia in a meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who told reporters beforehand that the escalation of violence in Ukraine appeared clearly to be "a slow-motion invasion on the part of the Putin regime."

Breedlove did not go as far as to say whether operatives from Russia had fired the missiles that have been downing Ukrainian helicopters. At least three helicopters have been shot down in the last week.

It also appeared that some missiles have gone missing from a local Ukrainian weapons storage depot, so he said he would not jump to the conclusion that it was direct Russian involvement, but he would not preclude it either.

More broadly in terms of NATO policy, he said, Russia's actions in Ukraine had demonstrated that it was not acting like a partner, and this should prompt more members of the NATO alliance to boost their defense spending toward the agreed target of 2 percent of gross domestic product.

"We have come from a period where we saw Russia as a partner," he said. "We are now in a very, very different time, and I think individual nations need to take this aboard and consider."

(Additional reporting by David Ljunggren; editing by G Crosse; and Diane Craft)

Meanwhile voices are being raised in the US calling for sending weapons to the Ukrainian junta.

Brzezinski Calls for Sending Weapons to Regime in Ukraine

Zbigniew Brzezinski, Jimmy Carter and Cyrus Vance in 1977. As Carter’s National Security Advisor, Brzezinski orchestrated a covert war against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan. Photo: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration

Global Research,

2 May, 2014

Top level globalist and Rockefeller confidant Zbigniew Brzezinski has mounted the pages of Politico to call for more pointed U.S. involvement in Ukraine.

“It is more than a month since the Russians annexed Crimea, and recent events have only exacerbated the crisis, with pro-Russian rebels reportedly shooting down two Ukrainian helicopters in separatist-held Slaviansk on Friday. Yet the president still hasn’t laid out a comprehensive statement of what is really at stake,” writes the co-founder of the Trilateral Commission.

Indirectly calling Russian President Vladimir Putin a “thug,” Brzezinski says “we have an obligation to help Ukraine.” He characterizes the crisis as “the most important challenge to the international system since the end of the Cold War” and tells Obama he desperately needs to issue “a comprehensive statement of what is really at stake” and address “the American people on this issue… He needs the support of the American people. Thus he has to convince them that this is important and that his stand deserves both national understanding and support.”

In late April, a Rasmussen Reports poll indicated nearly 60 percent of Americans believe the situation in Ukraine does not concern the United States. On April 28, a USA TODAY/Pew Research Center Poll found Americans overwhelmingly oppose the idea of sending arms or military supplies to Ukraine.

Despite this disapproval by the American people, Brzezinski writes “we should be more open to helping the Ukrainians defend themselves if they’re attacked. The Ukrainians will fight only if they think they will eventually get some help from the West, particularly in supplies of the kind of weaponry that will be necessary to wage a successful urban defense. They’re not going to beat the Russians out in the open field, where thousands of tanks move in. They can only beat them through prolonged urban resistance. Then the war’s economic costs would escalate dramatically for the Russians, and it would become futile politically. But to be able to defend a city, you have to have handheld anti-tank weaponry, handheld rockets and some organization.

Arizona Senator John McCain has led the call in Congress to arm the junta in Ukraine.

Brzezinski, a notorious Russophobe, employed a similar tactic when he was Jimmy Carter’s National Security Advisor. He was instrumental using U.S. taxpayer money to covertly arm the Afghan Mujahideen to fight against the Soviet Union. Factions within the Mujahideen would eventually become the Taliban and al-Qaeda.

In 1998, he told Le Nouvel Observateur the CIA’s “secret operation was an excellent idea” and “had the effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap” and “giving to the USSR its Vietnam war. Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire.”

Asked if he regretted lending a hand in the creation of radical and terrorist Islamic groups, the ever testy Brzezinski replied: “What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the cold war?”

The State Department’s less than covert installation of a gang of ultra-nationalists and fascists in Kyiv is evidence enough the “liberation of Central Europe” – apparently, for Brzezinski, Russia is Eastern Europe – is an ongoing project.

Now that Brzezinski has issued a public statement on Ukraine and called for arming Russophobes in that country — many who have long expressed their desire to ethnically cleanse and kill not only Russians, but Jews and Poles (Brzezinski is Polish) — we can conclude the global elite have decided to foster a civil war along Russia’s western border.

Watch this space!

Zbigniew Brzezinski on Syria

Zbigniew Brzezinski may be evil – but he's also a realist

Zbigniew Brzezinski on Syria: US Engaging In "Mass Propaganda", "Who's Fighting for Democracy?"

The west is absolutely engaging in mass propaganda by portraying the Syrian conflict as a fight for democracy when many of the rebels want anything but. They pledge allegiance to Al-Qaeda, explicitly call for Sharia law, kill thousands of Christians, use terrorist tactics yet our corrupt media and political class pretend arming them will produce democracy.

Posted June 16, 2013

The words of Zbigniew Brzezinski

'The US won’t follow Israel 'like a stupid mule' those are the words of someone who if nothing else Is a realist – Zbigniew Brzezinski.

With that and the vote in the UN today things are not all going Israel's way – to put it mildly

'US won’t follow Israel 'like a stupid mule' - Brzezinski

RT,

29 November, 2012

Leading US strategist Zbigniew Brzezinski rejects Israeli pressure to form American national security policy by beating the drum for war on Iran. Washington would not blindly follow Tel-Aviv if Israel chooses to unilaterally strike Iran, he said.

Brzezinski said he would not advise President Barack Obama to back military action against Iran if Israel initiates a war. The observation was made at a conference hosted by the National Iranian American Council and the Arms Control Association.

In the event that Israel attacks Iran before Iran crosses the US red line, Zbigniew Brzezinski does not think there is any“implicit obligation” for the US “to follow, like a stupid mule, whatever the Israelis do.”

“If they decide to start a war, simply on the assumption that we will be automatically drawn into it, I think it is the obligation of friendship to say “you’re not going to be making national decisions for us”, declared Brzezinski.

“I think the US has the right to have its own national security policy. I think most Americans would agree with that. And therefore clarity on this issue is important and especially if we commit ourselves, explicitly and bindingly, to Israel’s security,” the strategist said.

Brzezinski explained that he advocates a formula “designed to freeze any threat into a non-threat.”

“Unless one can convincingly argue that a country of eighty five million people (Iran has population of 78 million – RT) is no higher priority than an act of collective suicide. And I don’t think that is sustained by any evidence whatsoever,”Brzezinski rationalized.­

In recent months the Obama administration has been rebutting all of Israel’s attempts to draw the US into a military operation against Iran. Washington has warned not once that in case Tel Aviv opts to do the assault on Iran’s nuclear facilities on its own, it would have to face the consequences alone.

President Barack Obama stated he lays his hopes with the crippling international sanctions imposed on the Iranian Islamic Republic.

Despite Washington’s decisiveness on the Iranian question, the Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu continues to call for military action against Tehran.

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‘Americans elected Obama exactly because he’s peaceable’

 

Jamal Abdi, who is Policy Director of the National Iranian American Council, told RT that Barack Obama is committed to diplomacy in the Iranian issue. Political threats by rightwing pro-Israel hawks that were aimed against Obama's support for Iran diplomacy this past election "turned out to be a paper tiger".
 

Despite a strong pro-Israel lobby in Washington, with Barack Obama back in the White House, Israel cannot count on unconditional military support from America against Iran, Abdi said.

He pointed out that at the presidential election “the American people really voted for the candidate who promised to actually use negotiations, for the candidate who spoke against war.”

Abdi recalled that Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, a fierce advocate of military action against Iran, actually intervened in the American presidential election.

“He went on national TV channels ahead of the [American presidential] elections and basically came out against Obama. And Bibi lost that fight,” Abdi said.

Having backed the wrong horse, “Netanyahu needs to recalculate”, Abdi explained. But President Obama faces the same problem, because he needs to find a policy that would benefit everybody in preventing a war, “instead of trying to pander to this hawkish, very right-wing policy driven by some pro-Israel lobby groups.”

Still, Jamal Abdi believes an attack on Iran is a real option.

“As long as the ‘pressure only’ policy continue to dominate and undermine diplomacy, as long as sanctions continue to be a spoiler in a diplomatic process and limit the flexibility to find a deal that resolves these issues – we eventually going to end up in a war,” Abdi summed up.