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by Zbigniew Brzezingski, made top foreign policy adviser to Obama in '08.
"..two basic steps are thus required: first, to identify the geostrategically dynamic Eurasian (including the Middle East) states that have the power to cause a potentially important shift in the international distribution of power and to decipher the central external goals of their respective political elites and the likely consequences of their seeking to attain them. Second, to formulate specific U.S policies to offset, co-opt, and/or control the above.
To put it in a terminology that harkens back to the more brutal age of ancient empires, the three grand imperatives of imperial geostrategy are to prevent collusion and maintain security dependence among the vassals, to keep tributaries pliant and protected, and to keep the barbarians from coming together."
I found this quote from 1997 quite interesting and wondered what your thoughts were.
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