War Criminal Profile: Brzezinski - the Godfather of Colour Revolutions and Proxy Wars

A key figure in the history of U.S. foreign policy is the late Zbigniew Brzezinski, a Polish-American diplomat and political scientist who served as former President Jimmy Carter's National Security Advisor from 1977 to 1981. He was a highly influential figure in the Council on Foreign Relations. Although he was not the National Security Advisor under Ronald Reagan's presidency, he still continued to play a prominent role in enforcing U.S. foreign policy's goals in upholding Washington's global monopoly.

His strategy in carrying out U.S. foreign policy consisted of using the CIA to destabilize and force regime-change onto countries whose governments actively resisted against Washington. One particular target was the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, which was then under the progressive, anti-imperialist, and Soviet-allied government of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA). Brzezinski was the architect behind the Mujahideen, which was comprised of Sunni extremists -- or more specifically, a coalition of ousted feudal landlords, reactionary tribal chiefs, sectarian Sunni clerics, and cartel drug lords who were assembled by the CIA with the assistance of the Saudi and Pakistani military. Their purpose was to topple the PDPA, fight the Soviet Union, and ferment instability and chaos in Afghanistan, which would make it ripe for infiltration of U.S. capital interests. The Mujahideen eventually spawned the terrorist organization Al Qaeda who, in a strikingly similar fashion, would be utilized as proxy forces to topple the progressive, anti-imperialist governments of Libya and Syria in the 2010's.

Another regime-change project that Brzezinski played a major role in was the U.S. efforts to topple the Sandinista government in Nicaragua where -- much like the Mujahideen and Al Qaeda -- the CIA-backed reactionary forces (a.k.a. the Contras) were portrayed as "rebels" or "freedom fighters" in Western media; thus creating "humanitarian" pretexts for imperial aggressions. In particular, drug trafficking served as the CIA’s primary source of funding for paramilitary forces who were being used by the United States to fight against anti-imperialist governments and liberation movements in Latin America.

Now of course, some may be wondering, why would a liberal such as Brzezinski be supporting forces that represent backwardness and anti-modernity? He spells it out clearly in the 1998 interview with Le Nouvel Observateur (where he infamously bragged about creating "the Afghan trap" for the Soviet Union), in response to the following question:

Q: And neither do you regret having supported the Islamic fundamentalism, having given arms and advice to future terrorists? 

[Brzezinski]: What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the cold war?

Here, he makes it clear that the religious extremism of the Mujahideen fighters was not an issue for Washington because the real political value lies in eliminating the PDPA and putting an end to Soviet influence in the Greater Middle East, which gives the U.S. the opportunity to easily access and steal the country’s wealth. And, once again, reactionary forces are useful because their anti-modernity stance is a motivating factor in their efforts to sabotage economic development, which is conducive to ensuring a favourable climate for U.S. capital interests.

Such is the legacy of Brzezinski, whose strategy of funding the most reactionary anti-government forces, and promoting them as "freedom fighters", is now a longstanding staple of U.S. imperialism.