Zbigniew Brzeziński was one of the most effective thinkers in public affairs and played a big role in international politics, Russian political scientist Yevgeny Minchenko said on Saturday. He also described Brzeziński as a supporter of “Russian isolation”.
Minczenko, who heads the Institute for International Political Expertise, said that “one can refer to the ideology that Brzeziński developed in different ways, but he created a specific concept of US foreign policy, which he actively implemented.
An Echo Moskvy radio expert noted that Brzeziński, no longer holding an official position and having no direct influence on decisions made by the US authorities, “thanks to his public expert opinion, has a very significant influence on the policies implemented by many governments” in Washington.
Minchenko assessed Brzezinski as “one of the ideologues of Russian isolation.” According to Russian experts, “one of Brzeziński’s main metaphors” was that “Russia would never have been an empire if Ukraine had been separated from it” (Brzeziński wrote, among other things, that without Ukraine, Russia would no longer be a Eurasian empire – PAP).
According to Minchenko, this concept is applied by “many European and American politicians”.
Prof. Zbigniew Brzeziński, one of the most influential political scientists and US foreign policy strategists, former national security adviser to US President Jimmy Carter (1977-81), died on Friday in a hospital in Falls Church, Virginia, at the age of 89.
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