Zbigniew Brzezinski, national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter and one of the most influential US political thinkers at the height of the Cold War, has died aged 89
His daughter Mika Brzezinski announced his death on Friday, though the cause of death was not given.
My father passed away peacefully tonight. He was known to his friends as Zbig, to his… https://t.co/LU7X7kzjTH
— Mika Brzezinski (@morningmika) May 27, 2017
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Brzezinski, an advocate of US hegemony, authored numerous proposals to bring down the Soviet Union.
RT reports:
Arming the Mujahideen in Afghanistan to bleed the Soviets, transforming Iran into an anti-Western republic, and the brokering of the Camp David Accords – are among the best known outcomes of his strategies.
Brzezinski inadvertently helped create Al-Qaeda, when he convinced President Carter that running a secret CIA program to launch a proxy-war against the USSR-backed Afghan government was going to “induce a Soviet military intervention.”
“We didn’t push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would,” he said in a 1998 interview with Le Nouvel Observateur.
“The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border, I wrote to President Carter, essentially: ‘We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war.'”
“That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap and you want me to regret it?” he told the interviewer.
“What is more important in world history? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some agitated Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the cold war?”
Less than four years later, those “agitated Moslems” would destroy the World Trade Center and damage the Pentagon, setting off the endless “war on terror” that continues to this day.
As Carter’s National Security Advisor #Brzezinski went to Afghanistan with #CIA to fund Osama & #Mujahideen vs #USSR pic.twitter.com/52hVkW7h5N
— Michelangelo Moreno (@RealGResistance) May 27, 2017
Brzezinski was born in Warsaw, Poland, in 1928, according to official biography. Other sources speculate that he was actually born in a Polish Consulate in the Ukrainian town of Kharkov, which at the time was part of the USSR, but his parents registered him as having been born in Poland and not the Soviet Union.
He graduated from Harvard with a PhD in political science with a thesis on the formation of a totalitarian system in the USSR – and became author of a global strategy on anti-Communism and the concept of a new form of American hegemony.
Niamh Harris