“Ancient History”


National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski’s covert anti-Soviet Afghanistan policy in the Carter administration was to create the USSR’s own Vietnam-like quagmire, leading to the dissolution of the Soviet Union. It was followed up and expanded by Ronald Reagan and CIA director William Casey. This was all part of the “arc of crisis” strategy conceived decades earlier and aggressively followed through by Brzezinski. This strategy, particularly after 9/11, took a serious detour.

Two seminal books which focused upon this background are Robert Dreyfuss, Devil’s Game: How the United States Help Unleash Fundamentalist Islam, published in 2005, and Hélène Carrère d’Encausse, L’Empire éclaté (Decline of an Empire: The Soviet Socialist Republics in Revolt), published in 1978, which predicted the dissolution of the Soviet Union by fomenting revolt in the Muslim areas of the USSR bordering Afghanistan.

Both books totally blew me away, discussing things no one was even remotely talking about regarding the backstory of unfolding world events from the early 1980s to what was have been the ultimate hubristic redesigning of a new map of the Middle East. That catastrophic fiasco has finally collapsed in the wake of the tragic events we have seen over the past week.

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7:33 am on August 21, 2021