How the U.S. Lost the “Great Game” in Central Asia — Aidan O’Brien

Backgrounder.

At the end of his 1997 book The Grand Chessboard, Zbigniew Brzezinski concludes:

America must “maneuver and [manipulate] in order to prevent the emergence of a hostile coalition [in Eurasia]…. The most immediate task is to make certain that no … combination of states gains the capacity to expel the United States from Eurasia.”

Today, almost 25 years after Brzezinski published these words, we can conclude that his worst fears have come true: A Eurasian coalition, a Eurasian combination of states, has in fact emerged that is successfully challenging the U.S. in the heartland of Eurasia—Central Asia.

Indigenous Eurasian institutions like the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO—founded in 2001) and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB—opened in 2016)—and indigenous Eurasian projects like the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI—announced in 2013) and the Convention on the Legal Status of the Caspian Sea (signed in 2018)—are unprecedented declarations of Eurasian cooperation and independence which automatically preclude American leadership and dominance....

Covert Action Magazine
How the U.S. Lost the “Great Game” in Central Asia
Aidan O’Brien
https://covertactionmagazine.com/2021/11/08/how-the-u-s-lost-the-great-game-in-central-asia/

Note: Aidan O’Brien mischaracterized George Soros as a Christian in the article. This is incorrect. He is of Hungarian Jewish ethnicity and self-identifies as an atheist. The author can be somewhat excused for the error since Soros funds some Christian groups who hold positions he promotes.

In addition, Zbigniew Brzezinski reversed his position on US global dominance toward the end of his life. See Mike Whitney, The Broken Chessboard: Brzezinski Gives Up on Empire in Counterpunch, August 2016. Have the US elite gotten the message? Maybe, it seems, at least some not including the crazies.

https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/08/25/the-broken-chessboard-brzezinski-gives-up-on-empire/