Brzezinski - American Primacy And It's Geostrategic Imperatives

This is a noteworthy review of a book by the man who 'tricked' the USSR into
Afghanistan, security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski.



I have 'coloured' the article for those who want to get to the main points
fast.



Some comments on the review of :

"THE GRAND CHESSBOARD - American Primacy And It's Geostrategic Imperatives,"
Zbigniew Brzezinski, Basic Books, 1997.

It seems to me that Brzeszinski's views is the key to a lot of events around
9:11 and the present war in Afghanistan:

Terrorism is not the core issue since the US herself nutured these groups
and still do in Kosovo (as reported by The Independent, London, bin Laden's
closest associates have a training camp in the US controlled area).

Oil (pipelines etc) is not the issue either since the US could have been
"self-supplied" with oil from Athabasca in Canada, with reserves larger than
Saudi-Arabia.

That seems to leave Brzezinski's point as the main issue here :

The US needs to control the heart of the heartland (Afghanistan etc) in
order to control Eurasia and thereby the world. For that reason the war was
planned long before 9:11, and no matter "who did it", 9:11 would serve
"fine" as a pretext in the geopolitical game no being fought.

That does not mean of course that all Americans se matters this way, only
that Brzezinski and some not-to-be-ignored people see matters this way.

After all, the CFR was to a large extent established by people who thought
this way, such as the socialist Fabian, Halford MacKinder.

See Brzezinski on the site of Council on Foreign Relations :
http://www.cfr.org/public/resource.cgi?pers!1446

The review article is from Centre for Research on Globalisation, in Canada:
http://globalresearch.ca



Regards,



Arno Daastøl

http://daastol.com/EurasianGreatGame/







"THE GRAND CHESSBOARD - American Primacy And It's Geostrategic Imperatives,"
Zbigniew Brzezinski, Basic Books, 1997.






http://globalresearch.ca/articles/RUP111B.html


A War in the Planning for Four Years


by Michael Ruppert



From The Wilderness Publications,  November 2001



Centre for Research on Globalisation (CRG) at globalresearch.ca



11 November 2001





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Zbigniew Brzezinski and the CFR Put War Plans in a 1997 Book - It is "A
Blueprint for World Dictatorship," Says a Former German Defense and NATO
Official Who Warned of Global Domination in 1984, in an Exclusive Interview
With FTW



Summary



"THE GRAND CHESSBOARD - American Primacy And It's Geostrategic Imperatives,"
Zbigniew Brzezinski, Basic Books, 1997.



These are the very first words in the book, "Ever since the continents
started interacting politically, some five hundred years ago, Eurasia has
been the center of world power." - p. xiii. Eurasia is all of the territory
east of Germany and Poland, stretching all the way through Russia and China
to the Pacific Ocean. It includes the Middle East and most of the Indian
subcontinent. The key to controlling Eurasia, says Brzezinski, is
controlling the Central Asian Republics. And the key to controlling the
Central Asian republics is Uzbekistan. Thus, it comes as no surprise that
Uzbekistan was forcefully mentioned by President George W. Bush in his
address to a joint session of Congress just days after the attacks of
September 11 as the very first place that the U.S. military would be
deployed.



As FTW has documented in previous stories, major deployments of U.S. and
British forces had taken place before the attacks. And the U.S. Army and the
CIA had been active in Uzbekistan for several years. There is now evidence
that what the world is witnessing is a cold and calculated war plan - at
least four years in the making - and that, from reading Brzezinski's own
words about Pearl Harbor, the World Trade Center attacks were just the
trigger needed to set the final conquest in motion.


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FTW, November 7, 2001, 1200 PST - There's a quote often attributed to Allen
Dulles after it was noted that the final 1964 report of the Warren
Commission on the assassination of JFK contained dramatic inconsistencies.
Those inconsistencies, in effect, disproved the Commission's own final
conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone on November 22, 1963. Dulles,
a career spy, Wall Street lawyer, the CIA director whom JFK had fired after
the 1961 Bay of Pigs fiasco - and the Warren Commission member who took
charge of the investigation and final report - is reported to have said,
"The American people don't read."



Some Americans do read. So do Europeans and Asians and Africans and Latin
Americans.



World events since the attacks of September 11, 2001 have not only been
predicted, but also planned, orchestrated and - as their architects would
like to believe - controlled. The current Central Asian war is not a
response to terrorism, nor is it a reaction to Islamic fundamentalism. It is
in fact, in the words of one of the most powerful men on the planet, the
beginning of a final conflict before total world domination by the United
States leads to the dissolution of all national governments. This, says
Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) member and former Carter National
Security Advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski, will lead to nation states being
incorporated into a new world order, controlled solely by economic interests
as dictated by banks, corporations and ruling elites concerned with the
maintenance (by manipulation and war) of their power. As a means of
intimidation for the unenlightened reader who happens upon this frightening
plan - the plan of the CFR - Brzezinski offers the alternative of a world in
chaos unless the U.S. controls the planet by whatever means are necessary
and likely to succeed.



This position is corroborated by Dr. Johannes B. Koeppl, Ph.D. a former
German defense ministry official and advisor to former NATO Secretary
General Manfred Werner. On November 6, he told FTW, "The interests behind
the Bush Administration, such as the CFR, The Trilateral Commission -
founded by Brzezinski for David Rockefeller - and the Bliderberger Group,
have prepared for and are now moving to implement open world dictatorship
within the next five years. They are not fighting against terrorists. They
are fighting against citizens."



Brzezinski's own words - laid against the current official line that the
United States is waging a war to end terrorism - are self-incriminating. In
an ongoing series of articles, FTW has consistently established that the
U.S. government had foreknowledge of the World Trade Center attacks and
chose not to stop them because it needed to secure public approval for a war
that is now in progress. It is a war, as described by Vice President Dick
Cheney, "that may not end in our lifetimes." What that means is that it will
not end until all armed groups, anywhere in the world, which possess the
political, economic or military ability to resist the imposition of this
dictatorship, have been destroyed.



These are the "terrorists" the U.S. now fights in Afghanistan and plans to
soon fight all over the globe.



Before exposing Brzezinski (and those he represents) with his own words, or
hearing more from Dr. Koeppl, it is worthwhile to take a look at Brzezinski'
s background.



According to his resume Brzezinski, holding a 1953 Ph.D. from Harvard, lists
the following achievements:



Counselor, Center for Strategic and International Studies Professor of
American Foreign Policy, Johns Hopkins University National Security Advisor
to President Jimmy Carter (1977-81) Trustee and founder of the Trilateral
Commission International advisor of several major US/Global corporations
Associate of Henry Kissinger Under Ronald Reagan - member of NSC-Defense
Department Commission on Integrated Long-Term Strategy Under Ronald Reagan -
member of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board Past member,
Board of Directors, The Council on Foreign Relations 1988 - Co-chairman of
the Bush National Security Advisory Task Force.



Brzezinski is also a past attendee and presenter at several conferences of
the Bliderberger group - a non-partisan affiliation of the wealthiest and
most powerful families and corporations on the planet.



The Grand Chessboard



Brzezinski sets the tone for his strategy by describing Russia and China as
the two most important countries - almost but not quite superpowers - whose
interests that might threaten the U.S. in Central Asia. Of the two,
Brzezinski considers Russia to be the more serious threat. Both nations
border Central Asia. In a lesser context he describes the Ukraine,
Azerbaijan, Iran and Kazakhstan as essential "lesser" nations that must be
managed by the U.S. as buffers or counterweights to Russian and Chinese
moves to control the oil, gas and minerals of the Central Asian Republics
(Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan).



He also notes, quite clearly (p. 53) that any nation that might become
predominant in Central Asia would directly threaten the current U.S. control
of oil resources in the Persian Gulf. In reading the book it becomes clear
why the U.S. had a direct motive for the looting of some $300 billion in
Russian assets during the 1990s, destabilizing Russia's currency (1998) and
ensuring that a weakened Russia would have to look westward to Europe for
economic and political survival, rather than southward to Central Asia. A
dependent Russia would lack the military, economic and political clout to
exert influence in the region and this weakening of Russia would explain why
Russian President Vladimir Putin has been such a willing ally of U.S.
efforts to date. (See FTW Vol. IV, No. 1 - March 31, 2001)



An examination of selected quotes from "The Grand Chessboard," in the
context of current events reveals the darker agenda behind military
operations that were planned long before September 11th, 2001.



".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. (p. xiii)



". But in the meantime, it is imperative that no Eurasian challenger
emerges, capable of dominating Eurasia and thus of also challenging America.
The formulation of a comprehensive and integrated Eurasian geostrategy is
therefore the purpose of this book. (p. xiv)



"The attitude of the American public toward the external projection of
American power has been much more ambivalent. The public supported America's
engagement in World War II largely because of the shock effect of the
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. (pp 24-5)



"For America, the chief geopolitical prize is Eurasia. Now a non-Eurasian
power is preeminent in Eurasia - and America's global primacy is directly
dependent on how long and how effectively its preponderance on the Eurasian
continent is sustained. (p.30)



"America's withdrawal from the world or because of the sudden emergence of a
successful rival - would produce massive international instability. It would
prompt global anarchy." (p. 30)



"In that context, how America 'manages' Eurasia is critical. Eurasia is the
globe's largest continent and is geopolitically axial. A power that
dominates Eurasia would control two of the world's three most advanced and
economically productive regions. A mere glance at the map also suggests that
control over Eurasia would almost automatically entail Africa's
subordination, rendering the Western Hemisphere and Oceania geopolitically
peripheral to the world's central continent. About 75 per cent of the world'
s people live in Eurasia, and most of the world's physical wealth is there
as well, both in its enterprises and underneath its soil. Eurasia accounts
for 60 per cent of the world's GNP and about three-fourths of the world's
known energy resources." (p.31)



Two basic steps are thus required: first, to identify the geostrategically
dynamic Eurasian states that have the power to cause a potentially important
shift in the international distribution of power and to decipher the central
external goals of their respective political elites and the likely
consequences of their seeking to attain them;. second, to formulate specific
U.S. policies to offset, co-opt, and/or control the above. (p. 40)



".To put it in a terminology that harkens 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." (p.40)



"Henceforth, the United States may have to determine how to cope with
regional coalitions that seek to push America out of Eurasia, thereby
threatening America's status as a global power." (p.55)



"Uzbekistan - with its much more ethnically homogeneous population of
approximately 25 million and its leaders emphasizing the country's historic
glories - has become increasingly assertive in affirming the region's new
postcolonial status." (p.95)



"Thus, even the ethnically vulnerable Kazakhstan joined the other Central
Asian states in abandoning the Cyrillic alphabet and replacing it with Latin
script as adapted earlier by Turkey. In effect, by the mid-1990s a bloc,
quietly led by Ukraine and comprising Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan
and sometimes also Kazakhstan, Georgia and Moldova, had informally emerged
to obstruct Russian efforts to use the CIS as the tool for political
integration." (p.114)



".Hence, support for the new post-Soviet states - for geopolitical pluralism
in the space of the former Soviet empire - has to be an integral part of a
policy designed to induce Russia to exercise unambiguously its European
option. Among these states. Three are geopolitically especially important:
Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, and Ukraine." (p. 121) "Uzbekistan, nationally the
most vital and the most populous of the central Asian states, represents the
major obstacle to any renewed Russian control over the region. Its
independence is critical to the survival of the other Central Asian states,
and it is the least vulnerable to Russian pressures." (p. 121)



Referring to an area he calls the "Eurasian Balkans" and a 1997 map in which
he has circled the exact location of the current conflict - describing it as
the central region of pending conflict for world dominance - Brzezinski
writes: "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." (p.124) [Emphasis added]



The world's energy consumption is bound to vastly increase over the next two
or three decades. Estimates by the U.S. Department of energy anticipate that
world demand will rise by more than 50 percent between 1993 and 2015, with
the most significant increase in consumption occurring in the Far East. The
momentum of Asia's economic development is already generating massive
pressures for the exploration and exploitation of new sources of energy and
the Central Asian region and the Caspian Sea basin are known to contain
reserves of natural gas and oil that dwarf those of Kuwait, the Gulf of
Mexico, or the North Sea." (p.125)



"Kazakhstan is the shield and Uzbekistan is the soul for the region's
diverse national awakenings." (p.130)



"Uzbekistan is, in fact, the prime candidate for regional leadership in
Central Asia." (p.130) "Once pipelines to the area have been developed,
Turkmenistan's truly vast natural gas reserves augur a prosperous future for
the country's people. (p.132)



"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." (p. 133).



"For Pakistan, the primary interest is to gain Geostrategic depth through
political influence in Afghanistan - and to deny to Iran the exercise of
such influence in Afghanistan and Tajikistan - and to benefit eventually
from any pipeline construction linking Central Asia with the Arabian Sea."
(p.139)



"Moreover, sensible Russian leaders realize that the demographic explosion
underway in the new states means that their failure to sustain economic
growth will eventually create an explosive situation along Russia's entire
southern frontier." (p.141) [This would explain why Putin would welcome U.S.
military presence to stabilize the region.]



"Turkmenistan. has been actively exploring the construction of a new
pipeline through Afghanistan and Pakistan to the Arabian Sea." (p.145)



"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." (p148)



"China's growing economic presence in the region and its political stake in
the area's independence are also congruent with America's interests."
(p.149)



"America is now the only global superpower, and Eurasia is the globe's
central arena. Hence, what happens to the distribution of power on the
Eurasian continent will be of decisive importance to America's global
primacy and to America's historical legacy." (p.194)



".the Eurasian Balkans - threatens to become a cauldron of ethnic conflict
and great-power rivalry." (p.195)



"Without sustained and directed American involvement, before long the forces
of global disorder could come to dominate the world scene. And the
possibility of such a fragmentation is inherent in the geopolitical tensions
not only of today's Eurasia but of the world more generally." (p.194)



"With warning signs on the horizon across Europe and Asia, any successful
American policy must focus on Eurasia as a whole and be guided by a
Geostrategic design." (p.197)



"That puts a premium on maneuver and manipulation in order to prevent the
emergence of a hostile coalition that could eventually seek to challenge
America's primacy." (p. 198)



"The most immediate task is to make certain that no state or combination of
states gains the capacity to expel the United States from Eurasia or even to
diminish significantly its decisive arbitration role." (p. 198)



"In the long run, global politics are bound to become increasingly
uncongenial to the concentration of hegemonic power in the hands of a single
state. Hence, America is not only the first, as well as the only, truly
global superpower, but it is also likely to be the very last." (p.209)



"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." (p. 211) [Emphasis added]



The Horror - And Comments From Someone Who Worked With Brzezinski



Brzezinski's book is sublimely arrogant. While singing the praises of the
IMF and the World Bank, which have economically terrorized nations on every
continent, and while totally ignoring the worldwide terrorist actions of the
U.S. government that have led to genocide; cluster bombings of civilian
populations from Kosovo, to Laos, to Iraq, to Afghanistan; the development
and battlefield use of both biological and chemical agents such as Sarin
gas; and the financial rape of entire cultures it would leave the reader
believing that such actions are for the good of mankind.



While seconded from the German defense ministry to NATO in the late 1970s,
Dr. Johannes Koeppl - mentioned at the top of this article - traveled to
Washington on more than one occasion. He also met with Brzezinski in the
White House on more than one occasion. His other Washington contacts
included Steve Larabee from the CFR, John J. McCloy, former CIA Director,
economist Milton Friedman, and officials from Carter's Office of Management
and Budget. He is the first person I have ever interviewed who has made a
direct presentation at a Bliderberger conference and he has also made
numerous presentations to sub-groups of the Trilateral Commission. That was
before he spoke out against them.



His fall from grace was rapid after he realized that Brzezinski was part of
a group intending to impose a world dictatorship. "In 1983/4 I warned of a
take-over of world governments being orchestrated by these people. There was
an obvious plan to subvert true democracies and selected leaders were not
being chosen based upon character but upon their loyalty to an economic
system run by the elites and dedicated to preserving their power.



"All we have now are pseudo-democracies."



Koeppl recalls meeting U.S. Congressman Larry McDonald in Nuremburg in the
early 80s. McDonald, who was then contemplating a run for the Presidency,
was a severe critic of these elites. He was killed in the Russian shootdown
of Korean Air flight 007 in 1985. Koeppl believes that it might have been an
assassination. Over the years many writers have made these allegations about
007 and the fact that someone with Koeppl's credentials believes that an
entire plane full of passengers would be destroyed to eliminate one man
offers a chilling opinion of the value placed on human life by the powers
that be.



In 1983, Koeppl warned, through Op-Ed pieces published in NEWSWEEK and
elsewhere, that Brzezinski and the CFR were part of an effort to impose a
global dictatorship. His fall from grace was swift. "It was a criminal
society that I was dealing with. It was not possible to publish anymore in
the so-called respected publications. My 30 year career in politics ended.



"The people of the western world have been trained to be good consumers; to
focus on money, sports cars, beauty, consumer goods. They have not been
trained to look for character in people. Therefore what we need is education
for politicians, a form of training that instills in them a higher sense of
ethics than service to money. There is no training now for world leaders.
This is a shame because of the responsibility that leaders hold to benefit
all mankind rather than to blindly pursue destructive paths.



"We also need education for citizens to be more efficient in their
democracies, in addition to education for politicians that will create a new
network of elites based upon character and social intelligence."



Koeppl, who wrote his 1989 doctoral thesis on NATO management, also authored
a 1989 book - largely ignored because of its controversial revelations -
entitled "The Most Important Secrets in the World." He maintains a German
language web site at www.antaris.com and he can be reached by email at
jbk@antaris.com.



As to the present conflict Koeppl expressed the gravest concerns, "This is
more than a war against terrorism. This is a war against the citizens of all
countries. The current elites are creating so much fear that people don't
know how to respond. But they must remember. This is a move to implement a
world dictatorship within the next five years. There may not be another
chance."



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Wilderness Publications, www.copvcia.com. May be copied or distributed for
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