Zbigniew Brzezinski, former US National Security Adviser
The world seems more volatile, dangerous, and chaotic than it was even a year ago. The smoldering embers of a potential holocaust are nearly everywhere. With the America-EU-Russia divide, potential EU-Russia integration has been rethought by the West.
In this report I will show one major reason for this course reversal. I will also illustrate in so doing, that
the policy forgers in America, are nothing like the rest of us.I watched the other day, some Russians burning an American flag. Then a few hours later, I saw students in America burning an effigy of Vladimir Putin. The events worried me greatly. I realized that our patience is wearing thin, that our feelings are now raw.
Americans, Europeans, and Russians alike, grow weary of insult and injury perpetrated by leaders who seem to know nothing of us at all. Instead of citizens blaming one another, perhaps Americans and Russians can hold accountable the real perpetrators of today's East-West crisis.
To begin let me quote from the great American historian, author, and anti-war activist Howard Zinn who said:
"There has always been, and there is now, a profound conflict of interest between the people and the government of the United States."
In 1979 Zbigniew Brzezinski was then President Jimmy Carter's National Security Adviser. He and other great thinkers in Washington devised strategies that created for the Soviets, a world strategic emergency just like the one we see today in Ukraine. The Soviet Union, baited into invading Afghanistan, got mired in 10 years of useless conflict. As for
Zbigniew Brzezinski now, he is pointedly unapologetic that his theories have been deployed in bringing down regimes, and forging American strategic aims, for better or for worse.
Brzezinski, along with other key figures like former Secretary of State
Henry Kissinger, former Secretary of Defense and CIA Director
Robert Gates, and myriad disciples, they sit seemingly everlasting, like stone statues in some Pantheon of American exclusivist control.
It is their thinking that has set us all at odds.
Comment: "Americans, Europeans, and Russians alike, grow weary of insult and injury perpetrated by leaders who seem to know nothing of us at all."
So many political commentators are getting closer to the idea of psychopathy, which by it very nature is attracted to positions of power, but still haven't grasped it yet. Mr. Butler has, in his own words, articulated it clearly without lighting on the correct term.
Political Ponerology puts it :
In spite of their [psychopaths] deficiencies in normal psychological and moral knowledge, they develop and then have at their disposal a knowledge of their own, something lacked by people with a natural world view. They learn to recognize each other in a crowd as early as childhood, and they develop an awareness of the existence of other individuals similar to them. They also become conscious of being different from the world of those other people surrounding them. They view us from a certain distance, like a para-specific variety. Natural human reactions - which often fail to elicit interest to normal people because they are considered self-evident - strike the psychopath as strange and, interesting, and even comical. They therefore observe us, deriving conclusions, forming their different world of concepts. They become experts in our weaknesses and sometimes effect heartless experiments. The suffering and injustice they cause inspire no guilt within them, since such reactions from others are simply a result of their being different and apply only to"those other" people they perceive to be not quite conspecific. Neither a normal person nor our natural world view can fully conceive nor properly evaluate the existence of this world of different concepts.
Comment: Now that they have a name for Jihadi John, he won't be returning to the UK anytime soon, at least not alive.