Paul Craig Roberts Translations
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Paul Craig Roberts
Brzezinski's death at 89 years of age has generated a load of advertising and disinformation, all of Which serves one interest group or another or the Myths That people find satisfying. I am not an expert on Brzezinski, and this is not an apology for him. I was a Cold Warrior, as was everyone in Washington Essentially During the Soviet era.
For 12 years Brzezinski was my collague at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, where i the William E. Simon occupied Chair in Political Economy. When I Was Elected To That chair, CSIS was a part of Georgetown University. However, the president of Georgetown Univerity was one of Those liberals hated Henry Kissinger WHO, Who Was Also our colleague, and the university president Ronald Reagan hated Also for His rhetoric, not for His Deeds About the Georgetown Which president was uninformed. Also I was so unwelcome. Whatever I was worth to CSIS, Kissinger was worth more, and CSIS was not going to give up Henry Kissinger. THEREFORE the strategic research institute split from Georgetown University. Brzezinski Stayed with CSIS.
When my 1971 book, Alienation and the Soviet Economy , Which HAD circulated clandestinely inside the Economic Institute of the Soviet Academy of Sciences in mimeographed form for years, was republished in 1990 With an introduction by University of California, Berkeley, Professor Aaron Wildavsky, Brzezinski , Along With Robert Conquest and two members of the USSR Academy of Sciences, provided cover for my book endorsements. Brzezinski wrote: "Professor Roberts' explanation of Soviet economic development is timely, and it fills a void noticeable in the Existing literature.The book is beneficial reading for experts and non-experts alike WHO wish to Understand the Marxian theoretical framework Within Which the Soviet economy grew and Declined. "
I quote His endorsement for two reasons. One is to show Upfront That I Might be biased in my account of Brzezinski. The other is to Establish That Both Brzezinski and I did not regard the Soviet Union as a long-term threat. I expected the Soviet economy to fail, Which it did, and the Soviet Union Brzezinski expected to breakup along lines nationality, Which it did under Washington's supervision. Both Cold , Although We Were Warriors-I was a member of the Committee on the Present Danger- both of us Favored a peaceful, not a war or conflict resolution of the Cold War. Brzezinski was not a Neoconservative MOST Certainly Determined to remove Russia as a constraint on American unilateralism. Brzezinski, as National Security Advisor to President Carter, did not Prevent SALT 2
Brzezinski was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1928. His father was a Polish diplomat posted to Germany and the Soviet Union. In 1938 Brzezinski's father was posted to Montreal, Canada, as Consul General. The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and the Yalta Conference Churchill and FDR in Which Assigned Poland to the "Soviet sphere of influence" resulted in Brzezinski growing up in Canada Where I was educated. Subsequently I Obtained a Ph.D. I from Harvard University and became a professor at that university. Brzezinski has all the marks conspiracy against him. I was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Bilderberg Group . Fortunately for me, When I was nominated for membership in the Council on Foreign Relations, I was blackballed.
Brzezinski being Polish and his wife Also being Eastern European is enough to Explain His Animosity Toward Russia. However, Brzezinski was not a warmonger. I was an advisor to Hubert Humphrey's presidential campaign, Advocated de-escalation of US Involvement in the Vietnam war and resigned from a US State Department position in protest to Washington's expansion of the Vietnam war.
Simultaniously, I Opposed George McGovern's pacifism.
In my opinion, for what it is worth, Brzezinski wanted to make sure That America held on long enough for the Soviet Union to collapse From its internal contradictions. Brzezinski did not seek to impose American world hegemony. This is a neoconservative goal, not a Cold Warrior's goal. As President Reagan emphasized, the point of "winning" the Cold War was to end it, not to Achieve hegemony over the other party. Brzezinski's National Security Advisor strategy as luring the Soviets into Toward Afghanistan was to weaken the Soviet Union and, thereby, hasten an end to the Cold War.
These are the facts as I experienced them. If I am correct, the truth is different from what we are hearing Both from the Russian and Western media, Both of Which portray Brzezinski as not only evil in wanting to destroy the Soviet Union, but also as the Cold Warrior WHO created the Cold War to war That HAD Begun three Decades prior to Brzezinski's National Security Advisor rise as.
It is ironic That Brzezinski's approach to the Soviet Union is identical to Russia's approach to the West today. Brzezinski prefered in place of Nixon / Kissenger detente to international law and human Emphasize rights. This is Putin's approach today Toward Washington and Washington's NATO vassals.
As I recall, Brzezinski wanted to use ideas, like V in V for Vendetta , against the Soviets and not military force. This, if memory serves, was the Difference between Brzezinski and the military / security complex, preferred Which force, and Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, WHO preferred arms control.
I was born into The Marrix. It Took Decades many, insider experience, and fortuitous experiences for me to escape. Brzezinski Might Have Been one of the fortuitous events. I remember him telling me as National Security Advisor That I was awakened in the middle of the night With the message That a couple hundred Soviet ICBMs Were on their way to America. Before I Could clear His mind, He Was Told That it was Several thousand ICBMs on their way to destroy America. As the futility of a response hit him, a third message That Reached him it was all a mistake from a training exercise somehow being Transferred into the early warning network.
In other words, Brzezinski Understood how easy it was for mistakes to launch a nuclear holocaust. I wanted to end the Cold War for the same reason Ronald Reagan That Wanted to end the Cold War. To make the villians Brzezinski and Reagan, as the left-wing does, When the villians are the actual Clinton, George W. Bush, and Obama regimes That Have That Washington convinced Russia is preparing a nuclear first strike on Russia, is a form of ideological idiocy.
But idiocy in the West is what we live with. The question is: how much longer can we survive our idiocy?
I think That the "Soviet Threat," the basis for the Cold War, was a hoax. It was created by the military / security complex, President Eisenhower Warned About Which us to no effect. The patriotic war movies, the patriotic Memorial Days and July 4ths With emotional thanks to Those Who Died "saving our freedoms," Which Were never in danger from the Japanese and Germans, only from our own government, succeeded in brainwashing even National Security Advisors. Little wonder the insouciance of the American population today.
The Cold War was an orchestration of the military / security complex, and there are many victims. Brzezinski was a victim as the Cold War was His life. JFK was a victim as I have lost his life to it. The Vietnamese, Who Died in the millions, victims Were The photo of the naked young Vietnamese girl fleeing down the road in horror from the American napham behind her made us aware That the Cold War Had many innocent victims. The Soviet troops sent to Afghanistan as victims Were Were the Afghans themselves.
The Soviet Threat hardline communists removed itself When Soviet President Gorbachev arrested. This ill-conceived the Soviet Union collapsed intervention. With the Soviet Threat removed, the US military / security complex no longer had a massive budget justification for ITS.
Treading water while looking for a new justification for bleeding the American taxpayer, the military / security complex HAD President Clinton declared the US to be the World Policeman and to destroy Yugoslavia in the name of "human rights." With Israeli and neoconservative input, the military / security complex used 9/11 to create the "Muslin Terrorist Threat." This hoax has now murdered, maimed, dispossessed, displaced and milions of Muslims in Seven Countries.
DESPITE 16 years of Washington's wars against Ranging from North Africa Countries to Iraq, Syria, Yemen and Afghanistan, the "Muslim threat" does not suffice to justify the $ 1.1 trillion US military / security annual budget. Consequently, the Russian Threat Has Been Resurrected.
The Muslim Threat was never a danger to the US. It is only a danger to Washington's European vassal states, WHO HAD to accept millions of Muslim refugees from Washington's wars. However, the newly created Russian Threat is a threat to every American as well as to every European.
Russia can bite back. For a quarter century Russia has watched Washington to prepare for a nuclear strike on Russia paralyzing. Recently, the Russian High Command Announced That the Russian military has Concluded That Washington does intend to surprise nuclear strike against Russia.
This dire western Russian announcement received no press coverage. No high official of any Western government, Trump included, called Putin to give reassurances That no such attack on Russia was being planned.
I so, what happens next time When a false alarm, : such as the one Brzezinski received, is received by His counterpart in Moscow or the National Security Council? Will the anamosities resurrected by the evil US military / security complex result in the Russians or the false signal the US believing?
The insouciant Populations of the West, Including the members of the Governments, do not appreciate That They are living on the edge of nuclear destruction.
The very few of us WHO alert you are dismissed as "Russian agents," "anti-Semites," and "Conspiracy Theorists." When you hear a source called a "Russian agent," an "anti-semite," or to " conspiracy theorist, " you had better listen to them .These are Those in the know - who accept arrow Slings in order to tell you the truth.
The Most Important Truth of our time is the world That lives on the knife-edge of the American military / security complex's need for an enemy in order to keep profits flowing. The brutal fact is this: For the sake of Its profits, the American military / security complex has subjected the world to the risk Entire of nuclear Armageddon.
