The people should control themselves, not any outside manipulation covert or overt.
“It is also a fact that America is too democratic at home to be autocratic abroad. This limits the use of America’s power, especially its capacity for military intimidation. Never before has a populist democracy attained international supremacy. But the pursuit of power is not a goal that commands popular passion, except in conditions of a sudden threat or challenge to the public’s sense of domestic well-being. The economic self-denial (that is, defense spending) and the human sacrifice (casualties, even among professional soldiers) required in the effort are uncongenial to democratic instincts. Democracy is inimical to imperial mobilization.”
Chapter 2, The Eurasian Chessboard, p. 35-36.
“In brief, for the United States, Eurasian geostrategy involves the purposeful management of geostrategically dynamic states and the careful handling of geopolitically catalytic states, in keeping with the twin interests of America in the short-term: preservation of its unique global power and in the long-run transformation of it into increasingly institutionalized global cooperation.
To put it in a terminology that hearkens back to the more brutal age of ancient empires, the three grand imperatives of imperial geostrategy are to prevent collusion and maintain security dependence among the vassals, to keep tributaries pliant and protected, and to keep the barbarians from coming together.”
- He served as a counselor to President Lyndon B. Johnson from 1966 to 1968 and was President Jimmy Carter’s National Security Advisor from 1977 to 1981.
- Primary organizer of The Trilateral Commission
- He was deeply involved in arming, funding and training the Mujahideen which was a US project originally to use Islamic organized violence to attack the Soviets. That force and the ideas and training later ended up being used in the Taliban and ISIS and Al Qaeda.
- Member of the Council on Foreign Relations
“For Brzezinski, doing damage to Russia is a hobby.”
James K. Galbraith, Democracy inaction, Salon.com (November 30, 2004).
The CIA and Brzezinski and friends gave the Soviets a “Vietnam War” in the 1970’s. Did the US government give Russia another war in 2022 to continue to try to destroy the Russian government?
“The Carter administration deliberately provoked the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, which occurred on Christmas Eve 1979. In his 1996 memoir, former CIA director Robert Gates acknowledges that the American intelligence services began to aid the anti-Soviet mujahideen guerrillas not after the Russian invasion but six months before it.
On July 3, 1979, President Carter signed a finding authorizing secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime then ruling in Kabul. His purpose-and that of his national security adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski-was to provoke a full scale Soviet military intervention. Carter wanted to tie down the USSR and so prevent its leaders from exploiting the 1979 anti-American revolution in Iran. In addition, as Brzezinski put it, “We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam War.”
- Chalmers Johnson, Nemesis, 2006
Wikiquote: Zbigniew Brzezinski
Ukrainians deserve their rights and self-determination. They do not deserve to be harmed by the Russian government. Also, we must not ignore what the US government has done to work to take over and decide Ukrainian resources through bribes and conflicts of interest. We should learn about domination outside the Russian borders by US interests and weapons which bring threats of violence. The US would not allow threats near its borders.
“He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.” – Thomas Paine
The US oligarchs are attempting to decide the fate of the resources, like fossil fuels, of Europe and Asia. Why? Because they want to keep the people of the world under the thumb of oligarchy and to avoid rule by the people.
The US government is not defending freedom around the world, it is using terror and force to control and take resources that belong to other people in order to enrich the rich. That is the primary goal of national politicians.
– Brad
Ukraine Crisis: Learn & Act. Ira Helfand of the Int’l Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War along with filmmaker, organizer and writer Cynthia Lazaroff,
Event, taking place Monday, Feb. 28 at 7 pm
