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Zbigniew Brezkinski and liberal internationalism

Jimmy Carter's National Security Advisor, Zbigniew Brezkinski is one of the most interesting figures regarding modern geopolitics and much of the current situation is related to his efforts.

Largely called a Polish-American, Brezinski was born in 1928 inWarsaw to a family from Gallacia, which today is in western Ukraine to a Catholic family. His father was diplomat and posted to Canada in 1938. Brezinski went to college in Canada and only came to America because he lost a scholarship to do his PhD in England because he was not a British subject, even after 12 years in Canada. He ended up at Harvard instead.

Brezkinski was always anti-Soviet Union and closely aligned with the Democratic Party. He opposed Ike as a young professor. Brezkinski joined the Council on Foreign Relations and the Bilderburg group. He advised JFK, LBJ, and Hubert Humphreys.

Brezkinski was a long competitor of Kissinger, even losing out on a professor at Harvard to Henry in 1959. He opposed Nixon and Kissinger's foreign policy of detente. He founded the Trilateral Commission with David Rockefeller in 1973 and picked Carter, then an obscure new governor, to join in 1974, two years prior to Carter's win in the presidential election. He served as Carter's National Security Advisor.

In the Carter administration, he was often opposed by Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, who wanted less emphasis on human rights and working towards peace through arms limitation treaties. Brezkinski also opposed trade liberalization with the Soviet Union.

Even prior to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, he started the funding of the Mujahideen. It is a matter of historical dispute whether he intentionally tried to get the Soviet Union to invade or just exploited their invasion and decided to try and trap them there.

During the Clinton administration, he advised tactics and strategies regarding Ukraine.

Brezkinski was known as a liberal hawk. He was always anti Russia and believed that spreading democracy an be human rights would bring peace. His vision of liberal internationalism has proven dominant over the last 30 years.

Liberal internationalism is a fraud in many ways, but that is a topic for another post.