The Great Russian Gamble

This segment explores the strategic miscalculations regarding modern geopolitics, emphasizing the underestimated Russian resilience.

We will surround Russia in the Black Sea region and we will render Russia a third-rate power. And why not? It's so low cost, we're so powerful, what could stop us? We're unchallenged anyway, they're weak, they depend on us. So there was no, it wasn't even heatedly debated. But Brzezinski's absolutely clear about this. And like so many learned volumes, I must say, his book, The Grand Chessboard, is very well written and fundamentally wrong. And fundamentally wrong in that he has a whole essentially long chapter saying, NATO will move eastward, Europe, meaning the European Union, will move eastward, and what will Russia be able to do about it?