counterpunch | The main architect of Washington’s plan to rule the world has
abandoned the scheme and called for the forging of ties with Russia and
China. While Zbigniew Brzezinski’s article in The American Interest
titled “Towards a Global Realignment” has largely been ignored by the
media, it shows that powerful members of the policymaking establishment
no longer believe that Washington will prevail in its quest to extent US
hegemony across the Middle East and Asia. Brzezinski, who was the main
proponent of this idea and who drew up the blueprint for imperial
expansion in his 1997 book The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives, has done an about-face and called for a dramatic revising of the strategy. Here’s an excerpt from the article in the AI:
“As its era of global dominance ends, the United States needs to take the lead in realigning the global power architecture.
Five basic verities regarding the emerging redistribution of global political power and the violent political awakening in the Middle East are signaling the coming of a new global realignment.
The first of these verities is that the United States is still the world’s politically, economically, and militarily most powerful entity but, given complex geopolitical shifts in regional balances, it is no longer the globally imperial power.” (Toward a Global Realignment, Zbigniew Brzezinski, The American Interest)
Repeat: The US is “no longer the globally imperial power.”
We have not yet reached the tipping point for US primacy, but that day is fast approaching and Brzezinski knows it.
In contrast, Clinton is still fully-committed to expanding US
hegemony across Asia. She doesn’t understand the risks this poses for
the country or the world. She’s going to persist with the interventions
until the US war-making juggernaut is stopped dead-in-its-tracks which,
judging by her hyperbolic rhetoric, will probably happen some time in
her first term.
Brzezinski presents a rational but self-serving plan to climb-down,
minimize future conflicts, avoid a nuclear conflagration and preserve
the global order. (aka–The “dollar system”) But will bloodthirsty
Hillary follow his advice?
Not a chance.
