Disir
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Why would the United States run the risk of siding with anti-Semitic, neo-Nazis in Ukraine?
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.”
Brzezinski delved into the importance of little known Ukraine by explaining in his 1997 book, “Geopolitical pivots are the states whose importance is derived not from their power and motivation but rather from their sensitive location… which in some cases gives them a special role in either defining access to important areas or in denying resources to a significant player.”
“Ukraine, Azerbaijan, South Korea, Turkey and Iran play the role of critically important geopolitical pivots,” he wrote in The Grand Chessboard, a book viewed by many as a blueprint for US world domination.
Brzezinski wrote that Eurasia is “the chessboard on which the struggle for global primacy continues to be played,” and that “it is imperative that no Eurasian challenger emerges, capable of dominating Eurasia and thus also of challenging America.”
Understanding Brzezinski’s long-term view of Ukraine makes it easier to comprehend why the US has given $5 billion to Ukraine since 1991, and why today it is hyper-concerned about having Ukraine remain in its sphere of influence.
It may also help explain why in the past year the US and many of its media outlets have feverishly demonized Vladimir Putin.
Brzezinski Mapped Out the Battle for Ukraine in 1997 – Antiwar.com Original
So where is the Big Scandal here? Is anything in his words here false? Or is it just the weird naive idea the U.S. is Evul and Everybody Else are little hapless hobbits and hippies and never do any wrongs and we're supposed to be 'shocked' at geopolitical commentary?
Why would anyone be shocked? Are you proposing the US derives some type of emotional relationship with Ukraine?
Brzezinski didn't just disappear. Have you read the Grand Chessboard?
The United States is an empire. It is infinitely better to be in the empire than not. You would have a lot less of "U.S. is Evul and Everybody Else are little hapless hobbits and hippies and never do any wrongs" if there were open discussions about proxy wars instead of shoving propaganda down people's throats. Or-dealing with 3 IDs whose sole purpose is to disrupt any conversation related to it.
Well, Ukraine never plotted terrorism against the U.S in the Lavon Affair like Israel, or bombed a U.S ship like Israel did the U.S.S Liberty, or Ukraine didn't send in a massive spy of Jonathan Pollard like Israel did.
Therefor I see no reason why Israel should get preferred treatment over Ukraine, do you?
Wrong answer, Cornflake.
Do you have an explanation to why Israel deserves preferred treatment over Ukraine?
Not the topic. No matter how much you would rather it was.