A good book came out. It is “Zbig: The Life of Zbigniew Brzezinski, America ‘S Great Power Prophet” (Zbig: The Life of Zbigniew Brzezinski, the Prophet of the Power of the United States).
In it, English journalist Edward Luce tells the life of the Polish aristocrat who became a advisor to national security matters (1977-1981) and broke the backbone of the Soviet Union diplomacy with his human rights policy.
(1928-2017) had a lack of luck to succeed the teacher, a pop character, ambitious as Lucifer and insecure as a teenager. This eventually put him on a secondary but unfair level.
The two had similar trajectories. Europeans emigrated to America in the 1930s. Both went to and both stuck in the elite of Washington diplomacy.
Similar lives could not produce more different characters. Kissinger loved the spotlight and zbig avoided them. Kissinger cultivated sewing and Zbig hated the Soviet Union, trusting in the moral strength of the United States.
One liked honey, the other, since childhood, ate bees. Suffice it to say that in December 1939, at age 11, he wrote a dissertation entitled “The Siege of Berlin – 19 ??”.
Poland no longer existed, but Brzezinski, investing in the command of the imaginary troops that fought the Germans, wrote: “After ten days of bombing they wanted to talk to me. I refused because I wanted to rock Berlin.” Surrendered the Germans, “our soldiers hanged Hitler.”
The years and the story led Brzezinski to become a Soviet matters expert. Since the 1950s, he maintained that the nationalism issue was the “Achilles heel” of the Russian giant. There was no other.
You always learn something in books like “Zbig”, but Luce found a jewel. Out of power, Kissinger was a fierce opponent of Brzezinski, leading him to refract a famous observation of Lord Acton. In 1885 acton said that “power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
In 1979, under lead, Zbig wrote: “I came to the conclusion that although power corrupts, the absence of power completely corrupted.”
Lord Acton’s phrase is a carapuça for tyrants and tyrannars. Brzezinski’s is for thousands of former Poderos. It is worth both Washington’s diplomatic elite and the political plots of Baixada Fluminense.
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