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... ... which unraveled the Yalta and Potsdam arrangements and pushed NATO to the borders of Russia. There was no effort to accommodate and manage a transition to multipolarity... ... 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...
21.06.2019