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Brzezinski also resorts to blatantly [[Racism|racist]] rhetoric when describing potential geopolitical opponents within the region within or surrounding the "Eurasian Balkans":
Brzezinski also resorts to blatantly [[Racism|racist]] rhetoric when describing potential geopolitical opponents within the region within or surrounding the "Eurasian Balkans":
:''"In brief, for the [[United States]], [[Eurasia]]n geostrategy involves the purposeful management of geostrategically dynamic states and the careful handling of geopolitically catalytic states, in keeping with the twin interests of America in the short-term preservation of its unique global power and in the long-run transformation of it into an increasingly institutionalized global cooperation. To put it in a terminology that hearkens back to the more brutal age of ancient [[empire]]s, the three grand imperatives of imperial geostrategy are to prevent [[collusion]] and maintain security dependence among the [[vassal]]s, to keep tributaries pliant and protected, and to keep the [[barbarian]]s from coming together."''<ref>Brzezinski 40.</ref>
:''"In brief, for the [[United States]], [[Eurasia]]n geostrategy involves the purposeful management of geostrategically dynamic states and the careful handling of geopolitically catalytic states, in keeping with the twin interests of America in the short-term preservation of its unique global power and in the long-run transformation of it into an increasingly institutionalized global cooperation. To put it in a terminology that hearkens back to the more brutal age of ancient [[empire]]s, the three grand imperatives of imperial geostrategy are to prevent [[collusion]] and maintain security dependence among the [[vassal]]s, to keep tributaries pliant and protected, and to keep the [[barbarian]]s from coming together."''<ref>Brzezinski 40.</ref>
Brzezinski voiced his concern about the major obstacle to the [[United States]] pursuing an aggressive drive for global [[hegemony]]: the hostility of the vast majority of the [[American]] [[people]] to [[war]]. He wrote:
{{Cquote|America is too [[democracy|democratic]] at home to be [[autocratic]] abroad. This limits the use of America's power, especially its capacity for [[military]] intimidation. Never before has a [[populist]] [[democracy]] attained international supremacy.
But the pursuit of power is not a goal that commands popular passion, except in conditions of a sudden threat or challenge to the public’s sense of [[domestic]] well-being.
The [[economic]] self-denial (that is, defense spending) and the [[human]] sacrifices (casualties even among professional [[soldier]]s) required in the effort are uncongenial to democratic instincts. Democracy is inimical to imperial mobilization.<ref>''The Grand Chessboard'', Basic Books, pp. 35-36</ref>}}
==Criticism==
==Criticism==