Endgame of the Long Cold War

... Franco-Russian formula to avoid or delay a war in the Gulf was brushed aside or ignored. The world order was no longer seen to be in a crisis of transition to multipolarity, because... ... liberals thought that history had ended, the target states of the West, namely the Eurasian core states, thought that Imperialism had ended. This, I might add, was not... ... Rapid Deployment Force, and above all, acted to create a quagmire which would draw the USSR into Afghanistan. In other words, the Brzezinski project of going on the counteroffensive...