It certainly would be possible for America to redefine its role in the world, especially if, in the short run, America is able to cope effectively with the ongoing dilemma in the Middle East.
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKIIt certainly would be possible for America to redefine its role in the world, especially if, in the short run, America is able to cope effectively with the ongoing dilemma in the Middle East.
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKIUkraine, a new and important space on the Eurasian chessboard, is a geopolitical pivot because its very existence as an independent country helps to transform Russia. Without Ukraine, Russia ceases to be a Eurasian empire.
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKIArab nationalism, which tended to be until relatively recent somewhat secular in motivation, has now become increasingly religious and fundamentalist. And that makes it more pervasive, more difficult to deal with.
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKII happen to think that as the Ukraine moves to the West, towards the E.U., eventually towards NATO, it will pave the way also for Russia moving towards the West. Because it will become a logical extension of the same process, and it will eliminate any imperial ambitions.
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKIBipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let’s cooperate.
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKIGlobal stability – economic as well as political – is at risk.
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKIThe United States is prepared really to be engaged in the quest to get people in the world the dignities that they seek today, the social justice that they feel they’re deprived of, and the common solution to global problems.
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKIBut 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.
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKIToday it is infinitely easier to kill one million people than to control one million people.
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKIIn Iraq we must succeed. Failure is not an option.
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKIPeople, governments and economies of all nations must serve the needs of multinational banks and corporations.
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKIThe kind of problem that America faces in Iraq is a little bit the kind of problem that Israel faced in dealing with Hezbollah. If the conflict, the theater of conflict enlarges, it’s going to become more and more absorbing and more and more costly.
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKIThe scope of America’s global hegemony is admittedly great, but its depth is shallow, limited by both domestic and external restraints.
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKII was confident about America and the idea that in America people can become American without masking their ethnic identity.
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKIThough 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.
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKIHenceforth, 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.
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