Zbigniew Brzezinski Quotes

United States, Geopolitician
March 28, 1928 – May, 26, 2017.

Zbigniew Kazimierz "Zbig" Brzezinski (; Polish: [ˈzbʲiɡɲɛf kaˈʑimʲɛʐ bʐɛˈʑiɲskʲi] ( listen); March 28, 1928 – May 26, 2017) was a Polish-American diplomat and political scientist. 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. Brzezinski belonged to the realist school of international relations, standing in the geopolitical tradition of Halford Mackinder and Nicholas J. Spykman.

Also known as Political Scientist, Politician, Educationalist, University Teacher, Author, Strategist, Critic

I think the sheer attrition of American global domination will create circumstances in which the Chinese will be tempted to reach out for more influence, including in regions in which we have special interests, such as the Middle East, from which they already obtain a great deal of their energy. And that region will be seeking some new superpower patron.

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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.

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One has to be willing to face the fact that what has transpired in Iraq is not exactly a very successful exercise.

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With the more endowed nations constrained by their own higher technological capacity for self-destruction as well as by self interest, war may have become a luxury that only the poor peoples of this world can afford.

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The Ukrainian opposition should adopt democratic unity as its main principle, and it also must have one leader.

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It is conceivable that at some point a truly united and powerful European Union could become a global political rival to the United States.

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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.

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I think President George W. Bush contributed very directly to the fact that the status of America as the world's only superpower lasted for 20 years at most.

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