A War in the Planning for Four Years
by Michael Ruppert
From The Wilderness Publications, November 2001
Centre for Research on Globalisation (CRG) at globalresearch.ca
11 November 2001
Zbigniew Brzezinski and the CFR Put War Plans in a 1997 Book – It
is "A Blueprint for World Dictatorship," Says a Former German Defense
and NATO Official Who Warned of Global Domination in 1984, in an
Exclusive Interview With FTW
Summary
"THE GRAND CHESSBOARD – American Primacy And It's Geostrategic
Imperatives," Zbigniew Brzezinski, Basic Books, 1997.
These are the very first words in the book, "Ever since the
continents started interacting politically, some five hundred years
ago, Eurasia has been the center of world power." - p. xiii. Eurasia
is all of the territory east of Germany and Poland, stretching all
the way through Russia and China to the Pacific Ocean. It includes
the Middle East and most of the Indian subcontinent. The key to
controlling Eurasia, says Brzezinski, is controlling the Central
Asian Republics. And the key to controlling the Central Asian
republics is Uzbekistan. Thus, it comes as no surprise that
Uzbekistan was forcefully mentioned by President George W. Bush in
his address to a joint session of Congress just days after the
attacks of September 11 as the very first place that the U.S.
military would be deployed.
As FTW has documented in previous stories, major deployments of U.S.
and British forces had taken place before the attacks. And the U.S.
Army and the CIA had been active in Uzbekistan for several years.
There is now evidence that what the world is witnessing is a cold and
calculated war plan - at least four years in the making – and that,
from reading Brzezinski's own words about Pearl Harbor, the World
Trade Center attacks were just the trigger needed to set the final
conquest in motion.
FTW, November 7, 2001, 1200 PST – There's a quote often attributed to
Allen Dulles after it was noted that the final 1964 report of the
Warren Commission on the assassination of JFK contained dramatic
inconsistencies. Those inconsistencies, in effect, disproved the
Commission's own final conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone
on November 22, 1963. Dulles, a career spy, Wall Street lawyer, the
CIA director whom JFK had fired after the 1961 Bay of Pigs fiasco -
and the Warren Commission member who took charge of the investigation
and final report - is reported to have said, "The American people
don't read."
Some Americans do read. So do Europeans and Asians and Africans and
Latin Americans.
World events since the attacks of September 11, 2001 have not only
been predicted, but also planned, orchestrated and – as their
architects would like to believe – controlled. The current Central
Asian war is not a response to terrorism, nor is it a reaction to
Islamic fundamentalism. It is in fact, in the words of one of the
most powerful men on the planet, the beginning of a final conflict
before total world domination by the United States leads to the
dissolution of all national governments. This, says Council on
Foreign Relations (CFR) member and former Carter National Security
Advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski, will lead to nation states being
incorporated into a new world order, controlled solely by economic
interests as dictated by banks, corporations and ruling elites
concerned with the maintenance (by manipulation and war) of their
power.
As a means of intimidation for the unenlightened reader who
happens upon this frightening plan – the plan of the CFR - Brzezinski
offers the alternative of a world in chaos unless the U.S. controls
the planet by whatever means are necessary and likely to succeed.
This position is corroborated by Dr. Johannes B. Koeppl, Ph.D. a
former German defense ministry official and advisor to former NATO
Secretary General Manfred Werner. On November 6, he told FTW, "The
interests behind the Bush Administration, such as the CFR, The
Trilateral Commission – founded by Brzezinski for David Rockefeller –
and the Bliderberger Group, have prepared for and are now moving to
implement open world dictatorship within the next five years. They
are not fighting against terrorists. They are fighting against
citizens."
Brzezinski's own words – laid against the current official line that
the United States is waging a war to end terrorism - are self-
incriminating. In an ongoing series of articles, FTW has consistently
established that the U.S. government had foreknowledge of the World
Trade Center attacks and chose not to stop them because it needed to
secure public approval for a war that is now in progress. It is a
war, as described by Vice President Dick Cheney, "that may not end in
our lifetimes." What that means is that it will not end until all
armed groups, anywhere in the world, which possess the political,
economic or military ability to resist the imposition of this
dictatorship, have been destroyed.
These are the "terrorists" the U.S. now fights in Afghanistan and
plans to soon fight all over the globe.
Before exposing Brzezinski (and those he represents) with his own
words, or hearing more from Dr. Koeppl, it is worthwhile to take a
look at Brzezinski's background.
According to his resume Brzezinski, holding a 1953 Ph.D. from
Harvard, lists the following achievements:
Counselor, Center for Strategic and International Studies Professor
of American Foreign Policy, Johns Hopkins University National
Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter (1977-81) Trustee and
founder of the Trilateral Commission International advisor of several
major US/Global corporations Associate of Henry Kissinger Under
Ronald Reagan – member of NSC-Defense Department Commission on
Integrated Long-Term Strategy Under Ronald Reagan – member of the
President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board Past member, Board of
Directors, The Council on Foreign Relations 1988 – Co-chairman of the
Bush National Security Advisory Task Force.
Brzezinski is also a past attendee and presenter at several
conferences of the Bliderberger group – a non-partisan affiliation of
the wealthiest and most powerful families and corporations on the
planet.
The Grand Chessboard
Brzezinski sets the tone for his strategy by describing Russia and
China as the two most important countries – almost but not quite
superpowers - whose interests that might threaten the U.S. in Central
Asia. Of the two, Brzezinski considers Russia to be the more serious
threat. Both nations border Central Asia. In a lesser context he
describes the Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Iran and Kazakhstan as
essential "lesser" nations that must be managed by the U.S. as
buffers or counterweights to Russian and Chinese moves to control the
oil, gas and minerals of the Central Asian Republics (Turkmenistan,
Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan).
He also notes, quite clearly (p. 53) that any nation that might
become predominant in Central Asia would directly threaten the
current U.S. control of oil resources in the Persian Gulf. In reading
the book it becomes clear why the U.S. had a direct motive for the
looting of some $300 billion in Russian assets during the 1990s,
destabilizing Russia's currency (1998) and ensuring that a weakened
Russia would have to look westward to Europe for economic and
political survival, rather than southward to Central Asia. A
dependent Russia would lack the military, economic and political
clout to exert influence in the region and this weakening of Russia
would explain why Russian President Vladimir Putin has been such a
willing ally of U.S. efforts to date.
(See FTW Vol. IV, No. 1 – March 31, 2001)
An examination of selected quotes from "The Grand Chessboard," in the
context of current events reveals the darker agenda behind military
operations that were planned long before September 11th, 2001.
"…The last decade of the twentieth century has witnessed a tectonic
shift in world affairs. For the first time ever, a non-Eurasian power
has emerged not only as a key arbiter of Eurasian power relations but
also as the world's paramount power. The defeat and collapse of the
Soviet Union was the final step in the rapid ascendance of a Western
Hemisphere power, the United States, as the sole and, indeed, the
first truly global power… (p. xiii)
"… But in the meantime, it is imperative that no Eurasian challenger
emerges, capable of dominating Eurasia and thus of also challenging
America. The formulation of a comprehensive and integrated Eurasian
geostrategy is therefore the purpose of this book. (p. xiv)
"The attitude of the American public toward the external projection
of American power has been much more ambivalent. The public supported
America's engagement in World War II largely because of the shock
effect of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. (pp 24-5)
"For America, the chief geopolitical prize is Eurasia… Now a non-
Eurasian power is preeminent in Eurasia – and America's global
primacy is directly dependent on how long and how effectively its
preponderance on the Eurasian continent is sustained. (p.30)
"America's withdrawal from the world or because of the sudden
emergence of a successful rival – would produce massive international
instability. It would prompt global anarchy." (p. 30)
"In that context, how America `manages' Eurasia is critical. Eurasia
is the globe's largest continent and is geopolitically axial. A power
that dominates Eurasia would control two of the world's three most
advanced and economically productive regions. A mere glance at the
map also suggests that control over Eurasia would almost
automatically entail Africa's subordination, rendering the Western
Hemisphere and Oceania geopolitically peripheral to the world's
central continent. About 75 per cent of the world's people live in
Eurasia, and most of the world's physical wealth is there as well,
both in its enterprises and underneath its soil. Eurasia accounts for
60 per cent of the world's GNP and about three-fourths of the world's
known energy resources." (p.31)
Two basic steps are thus required: first, to identify the
geostrategically dynamic Eurasian states that have the power to cause
a potentially important shift in the international distribution of
power and to decipher the central external goals of their respective
political elites and the likely consequences of their seeking to
attain them;… second, to formulate specific U.S. policies to offset,
co-opt, and/or control the above… (p. 40)
"…To put it in a terminology that harkens back to the more brutal age
of ancient empires, the three grand imperatives of imperial
geostrategy are to prevent collusion and maintain security dependence
among the vassals, to keep tributaries pliant and protected, and to
keep the barbarians from coming together." (p.40)
"Henceforth, the United States may have to determine how to cope with
regional coalitions that seek to push America out of Eurasia, thereby
threatening America's status as a global power." (p.55)
"Uzbekistan – with its much more ethnically homogeneous population of
approximately 25 million and its leaders emphasizing the country's
historic glories – has become increasingly assertive in affirming the
region's new postcolonial status." (p.95)
"Thus, even the ethnically vulnerable Kazakhstan joined the other
Central Asian states in abandoning the Cyrillic alphabet and
replacing it with Latin script as adapted earlier by Turkey. In
effect, by the mid-1990s a bloc, quietly led by Ukraine and
comprising Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan and sometimes also
Kazakhstan, Georgia and Moldova, had informally emerged to obstruct
Russian efforts to use the CIS as the tool for political
integration." (p.114)
"…Hence, support for the new post-Soviet states – for geopolitical
pluralism in the space of the former Soviet empire – has to be an
integral part of a policy designed to induce Russia to exercise
unambiguously its European option. Among these states. Three are
geopolitically especially important: Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, and
Ukraine." (p. 121) "Uzbekistan, nationally the most vital and the
most populous of the central Asian states, represents the major
obstacle to any renewed Russian control over the region. Its
independence is critical to the survival of the other Central Asian
states, and it is the least vulnerable to Russian pressures."
(p. 121)
Referring to an area he calls the "Eurasian Balkans" and a 1997 map
in which he has circled the exact location of the current conflict –
describing it as the central region of pending conflict for world
dominance - Brzezinski writes: "Moreover, they [the Central Asian
Republics] are of importance from the standpoint of security and
historical ambitions to at least three of their most immediate and
more powerful neighbors, namely Russia, Turkey and Iran, with China
also signaling an increasing political interest in the region. But
the Eurasian Balkans are infinitely more important as a potential
economic prize: an enormous concentration of natural gas and oil
reserves is located in the region, in addition to important minerals,
including gold." (p.124) [Emphasis added]
The world's energy consumption is bound to vastly increase over the
next two or three decades. Estimates by the U.S. Department of energy
anticipate that world demand will rise by more than 50 percent
between 1993 and 2015, with the most significant increase in
consumption occurring in the Far East. The momentum of Asia's
economic development is already generating massive pressures for the
exploration and exploitation of new sources of energy and the Central
Asian region and the Caspian Sea basin are known to contain reserves
of natural gas and oil that dwarf those of Kuwait, the Gulf of
Mexico, or the North Sea." (p.125)
"Kazakhstan is the shield and Uzbekistan is the soul for the region's
diverse national awakenings." (p.130)
"Uzbekistan is, in fact, the prime candidate for regional leadership
in Central Asia." (p.130) "Once pipelines to the area have been
developed, Turkmenistan's truly vast natural gas reserves augur a
prosperous future for the country's people. (p.132)
"In fact, an Islamic revival – already abetted from the outside not
only by Iran but also by Saudi Arabia – is likely to become the
mobilizing impulse for the increasingly pervasive new nationalisms,
determined to oppose any reintegration under Russian – and hence
infidel – control." (p. 133).
"For Pakistan, the primary interest is to gain Geostrategic depth
through political influence in Afghanistan – and to deny to Iran the
exercise of such influence in Afghanistan and Tajikistan – and to
benefit eventually from any pipeline construction linking Central
Asia with the Arabian Sea." (p.139)
"Moreover, sensible Russian leaders realize that the demographic
explosion underway in the new states means that their failure to
sustain economic growth will eventually create an explosive situation
along Russia's entire southern frontier." (p.141) [This would explain
why Putin would welcome U.S. military presence to stabilize the
region.]
"Turkmenistan… has been actively exploring the construction of a new
pipeline through Afghanistan and Pakistan to the Arabian Sea…"
(p.145)
"It follows that America's primary interest is to help ensure that no
single power comes to control this geopolitical space and that the
global community has unhindered financial and economic access to it."
(p148)
"China's growing economic presence in the region and its political
stake in the area's independence are also congruent with America's
interests." (p.149)
"America is now the only global superpower, and Eurasia is the
globe's central arena. Hence, what happens to the distribution of
power on the Eurasian continent will be of decisive importance to
America's global primacy and to America's historical legacy." (p.194)
"…the Eurasian Balkans – threatens to become a cauldron of ethnic
conflict and great-power rivalry." (p.195)
"Without sustained and directed American involvement, before long the
forces of global disorder could come to dominate the world scene. And
the possibility of such a fragmentation is inherent in the
geopolitical tensions not only of today's Eurasia but of the world
more generally." (p.194)
"With warning signs on the horizon across Europe and Asia, any
successful American policy must focus on Eurasia as a whole and be
guided by a Geostrategic design." (p.197)
"That puts a premium on maneuver and manipulation in order to prevent
the emergence of a hostile coalition that could eventually seek to
challenge America's primacy…" (p. 198)
"The most immediate task is to make certain that no state or
combination of states gains the capacity to expel the United States
from Eurasia or even to diminish significantly its decisive
arbitration role." (p. 198)
"In the long run, global politics are bound to become increasingly
uncongenial to the concentration of hegemonic power in the hands of a
single state. Hence, America is not only the first, as well as the
only, truly global superpower, but it is also likely to be the very
last." (p.209)
"Moreover, as America becomes an increasingly multi-cultural society,
it may find it more difficult to fashion a consensus on foreign
policy issues, except in the circumstance of a truly massive and
widely perceived direct external threat." (p. 211) [Emphasis added]
The Horror – And Comments From Someone Who Worked With Brzezinski
Brzezinski's book is sublimely arrogant. While singing the praises of
the IMF and the World Bank, which have economically terrorized
nations on every continent, and while totally ignoring the worldwide
terrorist actions of the U.S. government that have led to genocide;
cluster bombings of civilian populations from Kosovo, to Laos, to
Iraq, to Afghanistan; the development and battlefield use of both
biological and chemical agents such as Sarin gas; and the financial
rape of entire cultures it would leave the reader believing that such
actions are for the good of mankind.
While seconded from the German defense ministry to NATO in the late
1970s, Dr. Johannes Koeppl - mentioned at the top of this article -
traveled to Washington on more than one occasion. He also met with
Brzezinski in the White House on more than one occasion. His other
Washington contacts included Steve Larabee from the CFR, John J.
McCloy, former CIA Director, economist Milton Friedman, and officials
from Carter's Office of Management and Budget. He is the first person
I have ever interviewed who has made a direct presentation at a
Bliderberger conference and he has also made numerous presentations
to sub-groups of the Trilateral Commission. That was before he spoke
out against them.
His fall from grace was rapid after he realized that Brzezinski was
part of a group intending to impose a world dictatorship. "In 1983/4
I warned of a take-over of world governments being orchestrated by
these people. There was an obvious plan to subvert true democracies
and selected leaders were not being chosen based upon character but
upon their loyalty to an economic system run by the elites and
dedicated to preserving their power.
"All we have now are pseudo-democracies."
Koeppl recalls meeting U.S. Congressman Larry McDonald in Nuremburg
in the early 80s. McDonald, who was then contemplating a run for the
Presidency, was a severe critic of these elites. He was killed in the
Russian shootdown of Korean Air flight 007 in 1985. Koeppl believes
that it might have been an assassination. Over the years many writers
have made these allegations about 007 and the fact that someone with
Koeppl's credentials believes that an entire plane full of passengers
would be destroyed to eliminate one man offers a chilling opinion of
the value placed on human life by the powers that be.
In 1983, Koeppl warned, through Op-Ed pieces published in NEWSWEEK
and elsewhere, that Brzezinski and the CFR were part of an effort to
impose a global dictatorship. His fall from grace was swift. "It was
a criminal society that I was dealing with. It was not possible to
publish anymore in the so-called respected publications. My 30 year
career in politics ended.
"The people of the western world have been trained to be good
consumers; to focus on money, sports cars, beauty, consumer goods.
They have not been trained to look for character in people. Therefore
what we need is education for politicians, a form of training that
instills in them a higher sense of ethics than service to money.
There is no training now for world leaders. This is a shame because
of the responsibility that leaders hold to benefit all mankind rather
than to blindly pursue destructive paths.
"We also need education for citizens to be more efficient in their
democracies, in addition to education for politicians that will
create a new network of elites based upon character and social
intelligence."
Koeppl, who wrote his 1989 doctoral thesis on NATO management, also
authored a 1989 book – largely ignored because of its controversial
revelations – entitled "The Most Important Secrets in the World." He
maintains a German language web site at www.antaris.com and he can be
reached by email at jbk@antaris.com.
As to the present conflict Koeppl expressed the gravest
concerns, "This is more than a war against terrorism. This is a war
against the citizens of all countries. The current elites are
creating so much fear that people don't know how to respond. But they
must remember. This is a move to implement a world dictatorship
within the next five years. There may not be another chance."
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