The Eurasian Chessboard: Brzezinski Mapped Out “The Battle for Ukraine” in 1997 | Global Research
It’s all about maintaining the US position as the world’s sole superpower
One of the keys may be found by looking back at Zbigniew Brzezinski’s 1997 book, The Grand Chessboard
in which he wrote, “Ukraine, 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.”
“However, if Moscow regains control over Ukraine, with
its 52 million people and major resources as well as access to the Black
Sea, Russia automatically again regains the wherewithal to become a
powerful imperial state, spanning Europe and Asia.”
The former national security advisor to Jimmy Carter from 1977 to
1981 and top foreign policy advisor to Barack Obama, Brzezinski wrote
that US policy should be “unapologetic” in perpetuating “America’s own
dominant position for at least a generation and preferably longer
still.”
