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The book was cited by Tucker Carlson (with input from Jeffrey Sachs) as a well‑written but fundamentally flawed analysis of U.S. strategy, especially regarding American dominance, NATO expansion, and the effort to contain Russia. While the hosts praised its insightfulness, they argued that its conclusions were entirely wrong.
Episode: Jeffrey Sachs: Ukraine/Russia Dangerous New Escala...
The book was mentioned as a wellwritten but fundamentally wrong analysis of U.S. strategy, used to illustrate how the United States planned to contain Russia.
I would say ... And his book, The Grand Chessboard, is very well written and fundamentally wrong.
Episode: Jeffrey Sachs: Tulsi Gabbard’s Confirmation, and t...
The book was called very good and insightful but also criticized as "all wrong," focusing on American dominance and NATO expansion.
By Zbigniew Brzezinski. And many of you have probably read it called The Grand Chessboard. He could have called it the game of risk. It would have been a little bit more accurate. It was about how to make American dominance in the world, with a chapter about expanding NATO to Ukraine and Europe's eastward expansion. Very good book, good in that it's insightful, terrible book in that it's all wrong.
Episode: Oliver Stone & Peter Kuznick: War Profiteering, Nu...
Brzezinski's book was cited as arguing that separating Ukraine from Russia would prevent Russia from ever becoming a Eurasian superpower again.
And what Brzezinski says in The Grand Chessboard is that if you can separate Ukraine from Russia, then Russia will never be a Eurasian superpower again.
Episode: Jeffrey Sachs: The Inevitable War With Iran, and B...
He referenced Brzezinski's 1997 book The Grand Chessboard, which advocated expanding NATO and Europe eastward and examined how Russia would likely react.
And what he said was in his book, The Grand Chessboard in 1997, we should expand NATO eastward. We should expand Europe eastward.
Brzezinski spends a whole chapter, what will Russia do? He asked if Russia would ever align with China or Iran, concluding it wouldn't.
