“This will require a review of our policy toward Pakistan, more guarantees to it, and, alas, a decision that our security policy toward Pakistan cannot be dictated by our nonproliferation policy.” Zbigniew Brzezinski — Letter to US President Jimmy Carter (December 26, 1979)

Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzezinski — a US policy adviser and academic born on March 28 1928 — died on May 26 2017. Patrick Armstrong — a former analyst in the Canadian Department of National Defence specializing in the USSR/Russia — just posted a realist analysis of his legacy. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY

Zbigniew Brzezinski to the Mujahideen: “Your cause is right and God is on your side!”

About Patrick Armstrong

Patrick Armstrong was an analyst in the Canadian Department of National Defence specializing in the USSR/Russia. I started in the time of Chernenko and watched the whole thing develop. He was a Counselor in the Canadian Embassy 1993-1996.

Armstrong retired in May 2008 and have been writing on Russia and related subjects on the Net ever since.

He has written for various blogs and discussion groups – some since departed and some still there. I recently decided to start my own blog — Russia Observer — with the intention that it become a repository for my writings.

Generally speaking, the predominant theme of his career was that we had a great opportunity when the USSR disappeared to make a more cooperative world. Instead, we have steadily turned Russia into an enemy – and a much more capable one than we casually assumed in the 1990s.

REFERENCES

Zbigniew Brzezinski obituary — Guardian

Turning a Blind Eye Again? The Khan Network’s History and Lessons for U.S. Policy — ArmsControl

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Zbigniew Brzezinski: “An exceptional failure all round.”