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Zbigniew Brzezinski

Zbigniew Brzezinski

Political scientist and former National Security Advisor of the United StatesWikipedia

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Sep 11, 2026

Daniel FriedGUEST
21:27
Henry Kissinger had no regard for either human rights as a foreign policy objective of the United States and certainly little interest in the dissident movement.
Daniel FriedGUEST
21:38
Now Brzezinski, who succeeded him as the National Security Advisor for Jimmy Carter in, in '77, had a very different view.
Daniel FriedGUEST
21:46
And oddly, in retrospect, you can see a continuity from Zbig Brzezinski's interest in support for dissidents and for solidarity right into Reagan.
Daniel FriedGUEST
21:57
Politically, the two people were very different, right? But in terms of their strategic view, Brzezinski and Reagan believed that values had power, and Brzezinski, because of his Polish background, understood that patriotism when linked with universal values was an extremely powerful force and one that appealed to Americans.
Daniel FriedGUEST
22:24
He was right, and Reagan's version of this turned out to be spot on correct.
Daniel FriedGUEST
22:30
And the investment in dissidents in general and solidarity in particular in the 1980s paid off magnificently.
Jeffrey SachsGUEST
19:40
We, NATO, which was not supposed to move one inch eastward, was going to surround Russia in the Black Sea because the idea, very clear based on a map, was that there would be Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria, Türkiye, and Georgia surrounding Russia in the Black Sea.
Jeffrey SachsGUEST
20:04
Now, if there's any doubt, Judge, about any of the purpose of this, it's spelled out completely, explicitly, vividly by Zbigniew Brzezinski in 1997 in two places.
Jeffrey SachsGUEST
20:22
One is a book called The Grand Chessboard and the other is an article called A, uh, uh, A, uh, Geopolitical Strategy for Eurasia or something like that in the council, uh, in the Foreign Affairs journal of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Jeffrey SachsGUEST
20:39
He says in 1997, "NATO will expand to Ukraine." This is a plan.
Jeffrey SachsGUEST
20:51
And finally, one ...
Jeffrey SachsGUEST
20:52
And, and I'll, then I'll stop [laughs] my, my, uh, my point on this.
Jeffrey SachsGUEST
20:57
The subtitle of Brzezinski's book in 1997 explains everything.
Jeffrey SachsGUEST
21:03
The subtitle is American Primacy and its Geostrategic Imperative.
Kristan HarrisGUEST
40:56
R- David Rockefeller, dead.
Kristan HarrisGUEST
40:58
Zbigniew Brzezinski, g- dead.
Kristan HarrisGUEST
41:00
Henry Kissinger, dead.
Kristan HarrisGUEST
41:02
And you got this new group of individuals that are really believing in this technology-ridden, AI-is-God future.
Scott HortonGUEST
22:15
The thinking at the time was to give them their own Vietnam.
Scott HortonGUEST
22:20
That was what Walter Slocum and Zbigniew Brzezinski said, and that was what Colonel Troutman says, parroting them directly in the movie, that this is the purpose.
Scott HortonGUEST
22:30
When we did Vietnam, the lesson we learned was, boy, that sucked.
Scott HortonGUEST
22:34
We should not have done that.
Jeffrey SachsGUEST
8:44
And I think what's important to understand is that The Bush doctrine, so-called, or the GWAT, the Global War on Terror, was part of a broader vision of American hegemony or American primacy.
Jeffrey SachsGUEST
9:02
And a go-to place to understand the logic of that is a book by Zbigniew Brzezinski written four years before Bush.
Jeffrey SachsGUEST
9:11
9-11 or published four years before 9-11 called The Grand Chessboard.
Jeffrey SachsGUEST
9:15
And the subtitle of that book is American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives.
Jeffrey SachsGUEST
9:21
The idea was America needs to rule.
Jeffrey SachsGUEST
9:25
It needs to dominate the world.
Jeffrey SachsGUEST
9:27
How should it do it? And it should control countries like Ukraine was one of the points that Brzezinski made in 1997.
Jeffrey SachsGUEST
9:38
The project for a new American century, the home of the neocons.
Derrick BrozeGUEST
51:34
There's a free audio book there and a free PDF.
Derrick BrozeGUEST
51:37
The book is part... history of what is technocracy? What is this historical technocracy movement? It talks about the original technocracy movement of the 1930s in US and Canada, talks about the 1970s update from Zbigniew Brzezinski and his book, America Between Two Ages, and then talks about the sort of modern technocrats, the people who are unelected, powerful billionaires, trillionaires who are using their money and their influence to shape the future of humanity.
Derrick BrozeGUEST
52:02
And of course, using technology as a way to do that.
Derrick BrozeGUEST
52:05
So the book's partially a history on that, but the majority of it is to solutions, of course, of what we do.
Jenny CampbellHOST
5:32
Its founder, Osama bin Laden, a Saudi construction multimillionaire, had been financed by the American CIA as part of its effort to build an anti-Soviet paramilitary force in Afghanistan to provoke the 1979 Soviet invasion.
Jenny CampbellHOST
5:50
The goal, in the words of Zbigniew Brzezinski, National Security Advisor to Democratic President Jimmy Carter, was, quote, giving the USSR its Vietnam, end quote.
Jenny CampbellHOST
6:03
It was only after the US mobilization of 700,000 troops in the Persian Gulf War of 1990-91, most of them based in Saudi Arabia, that bin Laden turned against his American backers.
Jenny CampbellHOST
6:18
Whatever the specific elements of the still unexplained conspiracy, the real political significance of the attacks is how they became a turning point in both foreign and domestic policy of the American government.
Walter IsaacsonGUEST
8:49
And so at the end of-
Joe ScarboroughHOST
8:50
Let's just pretend we had wise men in Washington, DC right now, that we had people like George Marshall, that we had people, you know, like Averell Harriman, that we had people like, you know, uh, Geo- George Kennan, that we had wise men, uh, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Henry Kissinger.
Joe ScarboroughHOST
9:05
Let's pretend we had wise men in Washington.
Joe ScarboroughHOST
9:07
What would they do? Looking back at history, what would a commission, what, what would an approach to this possible, you know, humanity-ending technology, what would the best approach be?
John KiriakouHOST
22:08
Essentially, they just all sit around the table and agree with each other, and that's why this argument was so important, so different.
John KiriakouHOST
22:19
You might have noticed Mika Brzezinski, who is Joe Scarborough's wife and the daughter of Zbigniew Brzezinski, actually put her hand on his arm to try to get him to calm down.
John KiriakouHOST
22:32
That's how upset people are about this report.
John KiriakouHOST
22:35
And like I said, this report didn't run in the, uh, you know, what's it called? The National Enquirer.
David KnightHOST
28:33
Yeah, I, I agree, and, uh, this is a long-term plan that we've seen there.
David KnightHOST
28:36
You go back to the 1970s, 50 years ago, and you had Zbigniew Brzezinski who, um, started the Trilateral Commission.
David KnightHOST
28:42
Then he gets in as the guy running the Jimmy Carter administration [laughs] like Henry Kissinger and Nixon.
David KnightHOST
28:48
And he wrote the book, uh, Between Two Ages.

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