Zbigniew Brzezinski Quotes - Page 3

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• Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers. But what is there in common among Saudi Arabian fundamentalism, moderate Morocco, Pakistan militarism, Egyptian pro-Western or Central Asian secularism? Nothing more than what unites the Christian countries.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Christian, Country, Islam

  Source: www.marxists.org

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• Because you can't intervene everywhere, you don't conclude you can't intervene anywhere.

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• It follows that America's primary interest is to help ensure that no single power comes to control this geopolitical space and that the global community has unhindered financial and economic access to it.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  America, Space, Community

  Zbigniew Brzezinski (2007). “The Grand Chessboard”, p.142, Basic Books

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• I'm perfectly willing to say no more Iraqs, which means no more unilateral starting of the war on false claims, false information, and a complete misunderstanding of the nature of the situation in the region.

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  War, Mean, Iraq

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• History is much more the product of chaos than of conspiracy

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  Chaos, Conspiracy, Conspiracy Theory

  "Quotation of the Day". The New York Times, January 18, 1981.

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• I think the United States is currently a kind of wonder - wonderland with the president Trump speaking on subjects of his choice, some of which are entertaining, but none of which are very strategically substantive.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Thinking, Choices, President

  Source: www.npr.org

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• There is an element of delusional obsession in the French political elite's preoccupation with the notion that France is still a global power.

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  Political, Elements, France

  Zbigniew Brzezinski (2016). “The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives”, p.62, Basic Books

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• Iraq may have been a preview of that, but it's still redeemable if we get out fast. In a war with Iran, we'll get dragged down for 20 or 30 years. The world will condemn us. We will lose our position in the world.

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  War, Iraq, Iran

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• The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border of Afghanistan, I wrote to President Jimmy Carter: We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war.

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  War, Opportunity, Giving

  Source: www.marxists.org

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• The mistakes of the Iraq war are not only tactical and strategic, but historical. It is essentially a war of colonialism, attempted in the post-colonial age.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  War, Mistake, Iraq

  "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer", January 11, 2007.

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• The notion that somehow or another they'll (Iran) put it in a picnic basket and hand it to some terrorist group is merely an argument that may be convincing to some people who don't know anything about nuclear weapons. I don't find that argument very credible, I'm not sure that people who make it even believe in it. But it's a good argument to make if you have no other argument to make. The fact of the matter is, Iran has been around for 3000 years, and that is not a symptom of a suicidal instinct.

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  Lying, Believe, Suicidal

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• Foreign policy should not be justified through making oneself feel good, but through results that have tangible consequences.

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  Feel Good, Tangible, Justified

  "The World According to Zbig". Interview with Charles Gati, www.politico.com. November 27, 2013.

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• The key point to bear in mind is that Russia cannot be in Europe without Ukraine also being in Europe, whereas Ukraine can be in Europe without Russia being in Europe.

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  Keys, Russia, Ukraine

  Zbigniew Brzezinski (2016). “The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives”, p.122, Basic Books

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• Russia's only real geostrategic option - the option that would give Russia a realistic international role and also maximize the opportunity of transforming and socially modernizing itself - is Europe.

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  Real, Opportunity, Russia

  Zbigniew Brzezinski (2016). “The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives”, p.118, Basic Books

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• To resolve conflicts, excessive ambitions and one's own fears and aspirationis must be sacrificed.

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  Ambition, Conflict, Resolve

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• In fact, an Islamic revival - already abetted from the outside not only by Iran but also by Saudi Arabia - is likely to become the mobilizing impulse for the increasingly pervasive new nationalisms, determined to oppose any reintegration under Russian - and hence infidel - control.

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  Islamic, Iran, Arabia

  "The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives". Book by Zbigniew Brzezinski, 1997.

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• Moreover, as America becomes an increasingly multi-cultural society, it may find it more difficult to fashion a consensus on foreign policy issues, except in the circumstance of a truly massive and widely perceived direct external threat.

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  Fashion, America, Issues

  Zbigniew Brzezinski (1998). “The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives”, p.211, Basic Books

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• We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States.

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  United States, Months, Dramatic

  "'Center for American Progress's New American Strategies for Security and Peace Conference, November 25, 2003'". "Congressional Record: Volume 149, Part 23", 2008.

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• One has to define very clearly what one's objectives are, determine in advance how much one is prepared to pay to achieve that objective and then act accordingly.

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  Pay, Achieve, Determine

  "Vietnam: A Television History (Legacies)". TV Mini-series, openvault.wgbh.org. July 11, 1983.

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• Hegemony is as old as mankind.

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  Hegemony, Mankind

  Zbigniew Brzezinski (2007). “The Grand Chessboard”, p.8, Basic Books

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• Though Stalinism may have been a needless tragedy for both the Russian people and communism as an ideal, there is the intellectually tantalizing possibility that for the world at large it was, as we shall see, a blessing in disguise.

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  Blessing, People, Tragedy

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• The Eastern Europeans invested too many of their hopes in the notion that somehow or other the missile shield, even if directed at Iran, would reinforce their security links with the U.S. vis-à-vis Russia.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Russia, Iran, Links

  Source: www.realclearworld.com

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• I don't feel I was "born American," but my homeland was denied to me after the end of World War II and I craved something I could identify with.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  War, World, Ends

  "The World According to Zbig". Interview with Charles Gati, www.politico.com. November 27, 2013.

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• Moreover, they [the Central Asian Republics] are of importance from the standpoint of security and historical ambitions to at least three of their most immediate and more powerful neighbors, namely Russia, Turkey and Iran, with China also signaling an increasing political interest in the region. But the Eurasian Balkans are infinitely more important as a potential economic prize: an enormous concentration of natural gas and oil reserves is located in the region, in addition to important minerals, including gold.

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  Powerful, Ambition, Russia

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• But if Russia is to be part of this larger zone of peace it cannot bring into it its imperial baggage. It cannot bring into it a policy of genocide against the Chechens, and cannot kill journalists, and it cannot repress the mass media.

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  Russia, Media, Baggage

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