Son of the infamous Cold War hawk takes on a new role amid growing tensions with Russia
Mark Brzezinski, son of former US National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, has been sworn in as US Ambassador to Poland. Vice President Kamala Harris led the ceremony on Wednesday, which was attended by Brzezinski’s sister Mika and brother-in-law Joe Scarborough, both hosts of MSNBC’s Morning Joe.
Brzezinski, who previously served as the US ambassador to Sweden from 2011 to 2015, was nominated for the post in August and confirmed by the Senate last month.
His father, Zbigniew, served as national security adviser under former President Jimmy Carter and was well known as the architect behind the Grand Chessboard theory of geostrategic power. The elder Brzezinski saw the Eurasian continent as the fulcrum of world power and believed that it was in the United States’ best interest to control it, given its wealth of natural resources, physical wealth, and population.
His efforts to take control of Eurasia from the Soviet Union included funding and support for the Mujahideen, the Islamic fundamentalist faction in Afghanistan that later became the Taliban. He spoke openly in interviews about taking the opportunity to “give[e] to the Soviet Union its Vietnam War. “
But the consequences of that project later led to the September 11 attacks and the United States’ own war in Afghanistan. It was the longest in US history and eventually culminated in the disaster for the Biden administration, whose withdrawal from Afghanistan in August last year was widely criticized and has contributed to his growing approval rating.
Brzezinski the Younger moves to Warsaw as tensions between the US and Russia increase, with the US trying to create troop movements within Russian borders as a conspiracy to attack Ukraine despite no evidence of such a plan and NATO members threatening to further gather their own troops together Russia’s borders.
(RT.com)
Source: sn.dk