Suicidal statecraft...the ultimate cause of imperial collapse.
"Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzezinski" is a Polish American political scientist, Geostrategy/geostrategist, and wikt:statesman/statesman who served as a counsellor to Lyndon B. Johnson from 1966–1968 and held the position of United States National Security Advisor to President of the United States/President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1981.
Brzezinski belongs to the realism (international relations)/realist school of international relations, geopolitically standing in the tradition of Halford Mackinder and Nicholas J. Spykman.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous politicians! More Zbigniew Brzezinski on Wikipedia.If he's going there to grandstand, then I think it's somewhat embarrassing.
There are major disappointments with the outcomes of Solidarity: corruption, and major pockets of economic backwardness and even poverty. By and large, though, if there were a choice between the life Poles led in the 1970s and 1980s and now, nobody but a lunatic would say they wanted to have back what they had before.
I encouraged the Chinese to support Pol Pot. I encouraged the Thai to help the Khmer Rouge. The question was how to help the Cambodian people. Pol Pot was an abomination. We could never support him. But China could.
We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war.
We're going to have a very universal, very catholic with a small 'c' editorial board.
The Choice: Global Domination or Global Leadership.
I think there is going to be no peace in the Middle East unless the United States steps forward.
I think it is a powerful statement. It raises fundamental issues of morality, trust.
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