Sep 4, 2026 · 15 min · 6 segments
Today we continue to pick apart Zbigniew Brzezinski’s 1997 geopolitical playbook – The Grand Chessboard – and how America’s blueprint for world domination is currently falling apart in real time. If…
So the last time I did this show, I started to talk about The Grand Chessboard, Zbigniew Brzezinski's Zbigniew, Zbigniew, Zbigniew, Zvi.
Mm-hmm.
In the late 70s, he was pretty much the architect of America's strategy to drag the Soviet Union into Afghanistan to fight the Mujahideen.
And the fact that he was able to work in the White House, he got to implement that point of view.
And, you know, the reason I'm talking about this book is I pulled it out again recently.
I think I heard John Mearsheimer reference it, and I was like, yeah, I haven't read that in a long time.
And it's a fascinating perspective of the world from the viewpoint of an American, you know, national security advisor, strategic planner from the White House who – He maintained, I think, a fairly high level of connection to the American strategic regime.
He was sort of the Democrat's version of Henry Kissinger for the last few decades of his life.
So the last time I did this show, I started to talk about The Grand Chessboard, Zbigniew Brzezinski's Zbigniew, Zbigniew, Zbigniew, Zvi.
Mm-hmm.
In the late 70s, he was pretty much the architect of America's strategy to drag the Soviet Union into Afghanistan to fight the Mujahideen.
And the fact that he was able to work in the White House, he got to implement that point of view.
And, you know, the reason I'm talking about this book is I pulled it out again recently.
I think I heard John Mearsheimer reference it, and I was like, yeah, I haven't read that in a long time.
And it's a fascinating perspective of the world from the viewpoint of an American, you know, national security advisor, strategic planner from the White House who – He maintained, I think, a fairly high level of connection to the American strategic regime.
He was sort of the Democrat's version of Henry Kissinger for the last few decades of his life.
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