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Subject: A War in the Planning for Four Years
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 Bilderberger 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 comb-
ination 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
Biliderberger 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 [log in to unmask]
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."
Copyright 2001. All Rights Reserved, Michael C. Ruppert and From The
Wilderness Publications, www.copvcia.com. May be copied or distributed
for non-profit purposes only. Posting on any ".com" web site is
prohibited without express written consent from the author.
Michael Ruppert is a frequent CRG contributor.
The URL of this article is:
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/RUP111B.html
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This world of ours is four billion, six hundred million years old.
It could end in an afternoon.
Arundhati Roy
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