Zbigniew Brzezinski’s Geostrategic Chess Board is in full Meltdown
The psychopathy of empires is a frivolous game played at others expense. When the inevitable collapse comes all hell breaks loose. The road to redemption is long and arduous.
Washington and its NATO proxy have lost the war to conquer the Eurasian heartland. Should he become president Trump's only option is to forgo further war and "Make America Great Again"(MAGA) which means restoring the Republic to its former glory and taming the neoconservative cabal that has been running US imperialist foreign policy. He faces a deeply fractured America with powerful vested interests and corruptions to be tamed and reconciled. Brezezinki’s pipe dream of conquering all of Eurasia is no longer affordable.
"The ultimate objective of American policy should be benign and visionary: to shape a truly cooperative global community, in keeping with long-range trends and with the fundamental interests of humankind. But in the meantime, it is imperative that no Eurasian challenger emerges, capable of dominating Eurasia and thus also of challenging America."--, Zbigniew Brzezinski
In 1997 Zbigniew Brzezinski’s, The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives was published. The above quotation is the thesis of his book as stated in the introduction. Expanding on the Wolfowitz Doctrine, it is his detailed master plan for US global hegemony, and the fulcrum of the crisis the world faces today.
Note to readers: What makes this book so interesting and provocative is that it was written 27 years ago. Contrasting the authors worldview then against all that has happened since shows how predictive history is and how change in these time is on steroids and must be well managed. Wars and genocide are pure criminality when diplomacy and harmonious relations are essential to planetary survival.
I am surprised the book was published as it is actually a blueprint for WW lll and the US take over of Eurasia. You would think it would be kept TOP SECRET. The author’s grand strategy has failed for a host of reasons, starting with American foreign policy never being benign or visionary; pursued by war mongering thugs lacking the skills and diplomacy to find a middle way.
The reality has turned ugly and threatening as one nation unilaterally attempts to claim ownership of planet earth and arrogantly attempts to set its self-serving terms of global “liberation.”
He states American policy must be benign and visionary when it has been the very opposite as naked imperialism, endlessly interventionist with endless wars and treachery. Where it paints China and Russia as the villains of the peace, the very opposite is true as the historical record incriminates the US and shows the US as unworthy of global dominance. These two countries have become de facto global leaders as they speak consistently for peaceful co-existence in spite of America’s incessant war mongering and violence.
It is also true that no singular power, no matter who, can be allowed to run the world as this is a recipe for global fascism and an enduring tyranny. Equilibrium can only be sustained where there are countervailing forces working toward consensus and peaceful co-existence.
His arrogance is palpable when he states in keeping with long-range trends and with the fundamental interests of humankind. As if to suggest the empire gets to rule the world by some self-ordained divine right, echoing Kipling’s poem white man’s burden. As time passes the Anglo-American Atlanticist imperialist whiteys have become the world’s burden with forever wars, too much treachery. Into many ways the American empire is a mimic of the defunct globe spanning British empire, now colonized by the US and Washington’s errand boy.
Echoing Wolfowitz, Brzezinski states… it is imperative that no Eurasian challenger emerges, capable of dominating Eurasia and thus also of challenging America."
He casually dismisses the universal right of cultures the world over to exist on their own terms in their own traditions. Many of which are much older and more mature than the pretender to the throne, as audacity runs naked in the streets.
He assumes that because America is the dominate hegemon at the time of writing the book it will continue to be so. He makes the claim while outlining the history of empires and their cyclical rise and fall. Especially so when the the 20th century saw the fall of the Ottoman empire, the Third Reich, the British and Japanese empires. Some how he feels America is immune to these immutable cycles.
He audaciously assumes Eurasia was ripe for take over when its emergence was inevitable. It was already starting to emerge, necessarily so representing the majority of the world’s population. China especially, had to perform an economic miracle to save itself, its population of 1.4 billion, after centuries of war, famine, revolutions and suffering at the hands of Western imperialists.
Now China has achieved that miracle, claimed its place in the world, shattered the Wolfowitz Doctrine and kicked over Brzezinski’s chessboard. The only responses the empire can conjure are envy, spite and World War lll. It only speaks the language of war and violence, incapable of detente, diplomacy and peaceful co-existence.
The chessboard is a piss poor metaphor for geopolitics and international relations as chess is winner take all, too many sacrificed pieces and temperamental players too willing to throw the board over with puerile brinkmanship and threats of nuclear war.
It all becomes a game, a sporting event, an addictive behavior with no regard for cost and consequences where whole armies of pawns die sudden deaths.
The helter-skelter busy-body West has run out of steam suffering failed intentions. It discarded, decency, democracy and diplomacy for the sake of empire; now in full collapse.
The author assumes that without the guiding hand the US the world will sink into chaos, when in fact the US is the agent of chaos determined to destroy the world.
The chaos we are witnessing now in America has come about because incompetent and wobbly elites refuse to recognize what Chalmers Johnson and others told us long ago: “You can have democracy or empire but not both.”
After the serial assassinations of the 1960s, the Kennedy brothers, King and so many others America went from democracy to empire. The empire’s world dominance peaked in the 1990s. 9/11 in 2001 marked the beginning of the end. The war in Ukraine was one war too many. The genocide in Gaza takes full measure of how far the empire has fallen.
War and genocide have many facets including revelation and the empire’s over indulgence is its own self-generated death wish. Barbarism can never be foreign policy in a sane world.
Brzezinski published a blue print for the conquering of Eurasia, but those mandated to advance it were imperialist barbarians running a warfare state as well-tailored terrorists. They didn’t have the brains, talent or diplomatic skills to seduce Eurasia. Their belligerence triggered the anti-hegemonic coalition now on its way to forming a more just and viable multipolar world essential to planetary survival.
When Bush and Cheney announced their global war on terror in 2001, they shattered Brzezinski’s chessboard, accelerating the collapse of the empire, pushing Russia and China into a defensive coalition, initiating Cold War ll and the drift to WW lll. As Professor John Mearsheimer has pointed out it was a major foreign policy blunder for the US to alienate Russia rather than partner with it— an essential first move on the grand chessboard. Where Putin applied for NATO membership, he was snubbed and scheduled to serve as the empire’s designated nemesis in its war on the world.
Where the grand chess board was a blue print for conquering Eurasia for it was also a trap for muddled ideologues.
The Democratic party under Joe Biden has been clearly acting as agency for the Empire’s last desperate effort to conquer Eurasia. A war lost and presiding over a hideous ongoing genocide his administration is in total collapse. The muddled ideologues desperately deny the realities of history and a rapidly changing world order.
Should Trump assume office his mandate is short and to the point — more war will simply accelerate the collapse of the West.
27 years later Brzezinski’s strategic chessboard is a foot note to history in full meltdown, such puerile grandiosity.
The psychopathy of empires is a frivolous game played at others expense. When the inevitable collapse comes all hell breaks loose. The road to redemption is long and arduous pursuing an essential equilibrium. The war mongering delusional West is a very big pot hole on the road to world peace and prosperity.
In 1998 “they gave up on America”. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xYNFQxgRzB8
Historically, empire and democracy are joined at the hip! It’s a constant. The idea of a non-interventionist democratic republic is very new relatively speaking. Trace the history from Athens to early Rome, the Mogul empire, the Italian city states, mercantilism and the list goes on.