On the "Great Chessboard" - black and white

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On the "Great Chessboard" - black and white


Pan's debut, Russian gambit


The cult book "The Grand Chessboard" by Zbigniew Brzezinski was published twenty-five years ago - in 1997. How many years this ardent anti-Soviet and Russophobe wrote it, only he himself knows. And although by that time the USSR had already ceased to exist, the fragments of the former Union still posed a danger to the West.



Today, despite the fact that much has changed, first of all we are talking about Russia, which Brzezinski called a “black hole”. By this, he admitted that he sees in our political and cultural tradition some features that cannot be described in terms of Western thinking.

Remember Tyutchev's line "Russia cannot be understood with the mind." We consider it positive, but from the outside Russia, which cannot be understood, is seen as a “black hole”. By the way, Brzezinski's book is on a par with such works of political thought as Aristotle's Politics, Machiavelli's The Prince, and Huntington's Clash of Civilizations.


Brzezinski analyzed the geopolitical situation in the world and especially on the Eurasian continent. He modeled possible options for the behavior of countries and their alliances in the future and recommended the most appropriate response to them by the United States in order to maintain their position as the only world superpower.

The geopolitical models and forecasts that Brzezinski considered were relevant until February 24, 2022, when Russia began the NWO. The special operation, this sharp gambit, immediately changed the balance on the chessboard.

How exactly? Is it good for Russia or bad? Let's try to figure it out. But first, a little about the game of chess, you need to know how and on what we play.

From opening to endgame


Many people think that the main thing in chess is the mind. But not everyone believed and believe so. Edgar Allan Poe once remarked that

"the notion of chess as a game exclusively beneficial to the mind is based on a misunderstanding."

Denis Diderot was of the same opinion:

"You can be a stupid person and at the same time a strong chess player."

By the way, if chess is based on the mind, then the machine already smarter than a human. For the world champions have been losing to computers for some time now - the machine simply counts faster and more. Or maybe it happened because intelligence is not required for chess? It is enough to own a certain number of algorithms and quickly count the moves.

Indeed, chess has been played for many centuries. All the moves have long been studied, recorded and put into the computer. It is enough for novice chess players to know and remember what move should be made in a particular case. Note that the game excludes the possibility of a happy accident, sometimes helping in life. In chess, only the opponent's mistakes help. It is a game without mercy, without charm, without joke.

It is believed that chess was invented by the ancient gods of war. Their meaning is the art of war, the triumph of the victor. The game originated in India, went through westernization, when the vizier turned into a queen, the war elephant became a bishop or officer, the chariot became a siege tower (tour), and the horse acquired the features of a European knight.

In fact, chess is a cruel game of killing, where the main thing is to kill everyone! In the party, even the one whose own army has almost completely died is considered the winner. Why? Yes, because in chess only one king should be defended, pawns simply go to waste.

In the Middle Ages, it was believed that chess was closer not to military affairs, but to the art of government, and their study could be useful for the future political elite.

military chess


Today's military and geopolitical chess is an even more complicated game, the whole planet serves as a board for it, and numerous countries with their own history and interests. But the basic principle remains the same - you need to have a clear game plan and look for the best moves in order to win.


The war machine itself has become more complex, and there is no longer a distinction between legal and illegal methods of war. There is no division into the army and the population: everyone fights, only some - openly, others - secretly, some - continuously, others - at an opportunity. And there is no more division into a warring and a peaceful country.

NATO supplies equipment and ammunition to Ukraine, transmits intelligence data, and military experts travel from there to lead the fighting. All countries of the alliance de facto became belligerents, considering and calling themselves peaceful and even peaceful.

The concepts of “hybrid” and “sanctions” war have appeared. And the war itself is no longer a purely military enterprise: there are more politics in it than tactics, it must be won both by troops and propaganda. Moreover, the conduct of information warfare is becoming no less important than the art of war.

And propaganda should contribute to the combat successes of one's own and to the demoralization of the enemy. This is how military chess is today.

What's on the board? Here the changes are simply global. And here are just a few.

Check from SCO, check from Sweden


Let me remind you that the SCO was founded by the leaders of six countries - Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. They were followed by India and Pakistan, and on September 17, 2021, Iran. The procedure for admission to the organization of the Republic of Belarus has begun.


The SCO observers are Afghanistan and Mongolia. SCO dialogue partners are Azerbaijan, Armenia, Nepal, Cambodia, Sri Lanka and Turkey. Even Turkey has expressed a desire to join the SCO. Memorandums of partnership in dialogue with Egypt, Qatar and Saudi Arabia were signed at the summit in Samarkand.

Procedures have been launched for granting the status of dialogue partners to Bahrain, Kuwait, the Maldives, Myanmar and the United Arab Emirates. The total population of the SCO countries is almost 3,4 billion people. This is about half of all people living on the planet. At the same time, the SCO is not NATO, not a military bloc, it is an organization focused on broad international cooperation.

And there, in NATO, Sweden and Finland rushed, obviously frightened by the prospect of Russian expansion. However, it was not Turkey that thwarted everything, promising to say no to the Scandinavians for supporting separatist Kurds, but Sweden itself.

In Stockholm, they found a way to avoid joining the alliance, recalling that according to Swedish law, the kingdom can only enter into a military alliance if two different governments and two different parliaments vote for it during their election period.

And if Stoltenberg declares that Sweden can join the alliance even tomorrow, then in fact this can happen no earlier than in eight years. This is no longer a check, but a checkmate from the Swedes, and if Sweden does not join NATO, then Finland, most likely, will disown. No one wants to risk a direct confrontation with Russia.

Smothered checkmate in Italy


A stale checkmate is when the king has no moves left. In Italy, with the kings, you know how, they hanged the Duce there. Upside down. And the leader of the Brothers of Italy party, George Meloni (pictured), said that the first results of the parliamentary elections speak of the desire of Italians to see a centre-right government.


The leading role there will belong to her party. She noted that in the European Union one can no longer call oneself a mother, or a Christian, or an Italian, or a woman. Other options are offered: be Citizen X, Gender X, Parent #1, Parent #2.

"Because if I've been turned into a number plate, stripped of my identity, and stripped of my roots, then I'll be the perfect slave, the perfect consumer, at the mercy of the financial speculators."

Meloni said.

And then I immediately remembered that when he was the Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, Andrei Fursenko claimed that

"the task of the modern school is to grow a qualified consumer."

Are the “ideal consumers” grown up by the Bologna system fleeing from mobilization to different countries of the world because it is possible to consume correctly and qualifiedly not in the army, but in a cozy cafe somewhere in Brussels or Strasbourg - the capitals of the EU.

...and a sacrifice of quality


Meanwhile, in England and the European Union, they are already seriously fearing not a crisis or a recession, but a collapse of the economy. The pound sterling has fallen to historic lows against the dollar, and the City of London is already issuing grim warnings that the British economy may have plunged into a currency crisis.

And although the decline in EU GDP is not inevitable, but its risk has increased, admitted the other day the European Commissioner for Economics Paolo Gentiloni. The EBRD has already sharply worsened its growth forecast for the economies of the region in 2023 due to disruptions in gas from the Russian Federation.

The question is, what kind of growth is there if quality is so mediocrely sacrificed in the EU. In chess, this is when a rook is traded for a minor piece, and in economics, affordable Russian gas is traded for dubious liquefied gas from the United States. And in the simplest way - by blowing up the pipes. One thread, however, was left, as they say, for brood.

And what will be the forecast for the decline in GDP and recession after undermining the three branches of the Nord Stream, in general, it is impossible to say yet. Who arranged this sacrifice, but rather, is it just a checkmate to the European Union? Warsaw, Kyiv, Washington or "private saboteurs"? There is no answer yet.

Undermining idle gas pipelines in Russia does not cause additional damage. Therefore, the obvious goal of sabotage is the internationalization of the military conflict with the expansion of hostilities on the territory of third countries. The risks of destruction of industrial infrastructure and disruption of export supplies are obviously increasing. As well as the risk of the collapse of the EU economy.

It should be recalled that in February, US President Joe Biden, following negotiations with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, promised that the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline would not work if Russia invaded Ukraine. Biden added:

"I promise we can do it."


By the way, the former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland, Radosław Sikorski, rejoiced at the damage to the Nord Stream gas pipeline, he wrote on social networks:

"Thank you USA."

Who is left with the endgame?


But traditionally, Britain accused Russia of undermining the gas pipeline. Yes, yes, we are shelling ourselves and destroying what we have built. On the other hand, the information war always accompanies the usual one. And now the world is faced with a combination of different wars: information, hot, sanctions…

“The purpose of the sabotage could not be to reduce Russia's income, but to increase the income of another country. The main economic beneficiary of the reduction in Russian gas exports is the United States,”

- Nikolai Vavilov, a specialist in the department of strategic research at Total Research, has no doubts.

And the moment for sabotage was not chosen by chance. Indeed, on September 25, several thousand Germans went to a rally in support of the launch of SP-2, and gas prices began to decline in view of this prospect. “So the time has come for action.”

Each of the parties to the conflict believes that they will win. But, as usual, behind-the-scenes negotiations are underway. That does not cancel the victory on the battlefield. But the players have the opportunity to change the game. No, we are not talking about throwing all the pieces to the floor and hitting the opponent's head with the board. Although such a move is possible.

We are talking about changing the game of chess to a game, for example, of cards. Say what you like, but our grandmasters have not yet gotten the hang of winning chess by engaging in information and sanctions wars.

Thus, Russia did not actually impose retaliatory sanctions, did not confiscate Western assets, and did not introduce state asset management of companies that left the Russian Federation. Yes, and the special operation is somehow strangely neat.
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  1. +6
    7 October 2022 16: 14

    Thus, Russia did not actually impose retaliatory sanctions, did not confiscate Western assets, and did not introduce state asset management of companies that left the Russian Federation. Yes, and the special operation is somehow strangely neat
    And will not enter. For this, steel eggs are needed, and not Faberge eggs, for which the West holds all of our the elite
    1. -6
      7 October 2022 17: 03
      It's a lie. Russia has frozen the ownership of foreign assets worth more than $500 billion.
      Sberbank, Gazprom, Rosneft, Norilsk Nickel, Severstal... All these major Russian companies are largely owned by foreigners.
      1. AAK
        0
        7 October 2022 17: 50
        And how did this freeze positively affect the overall economic situation in Russia? So far, "competent comrades" have not told us anything about this, even more than that - at least something is heard from the front, but from the rear there is "dead silence ..."
        1. -2
          7 October 2022 18: 18
          This freeze saved the banks of the Russian Federation from default, because. enterprises of the Russian Federation are credited in Russian banks against the security of their property. If foreigners sold their assets at once, it would turn out that the collateral would depreciate. Accordingly, enterprises would go bankrupt first, then banks, and, accordingly, citizens would lose their deposits and money in their salary accounts. So here you can only rejoice at the merciless, competent and decisive actions.
          Nabiullina should have been appointed Minister of Defense, that's who has steel ovaries)) And Shoigu and Putin can wear brooches on their jackets.

          And the general economic situation in a warring country can only improve in the sick fantasies of propagandists.
          1. +2
            7 October 2022 21: 37
            Quote from Gromit
            because enterprises of the Russian Federation are credited in Russian banks against the security of their property.

            and taking into account the fact that with the beginning of the SVO, they are no longer credited, can you answer about the positive impact of the freeze and salvation from bankruptcy? because Your previous answer is meaningless..
            1. -4
              7 October 2022 23: 27
              Whose is not credited?) And what kind of shisha do you think
              our exporters are rebuilding logistics, and our defense industry is increasing production volumes?)))
              As for the bailout from bankruptcies... If the SVO lasts another year, you will be able to see for yourself how the mass bankruptcy of enterprises and banks affects the receipt of pensions and salaries of state employees.
              1. +1
                8 October 2022 00: 13
                Quote from Gromit
                As for the bailout from bankruptcies... If the SVO lasts another year, you will be able to see for yourself how the mass bankruptcy of enterprises and banks affects the receipt of pensions and salaries of state employees.

                I agree, I was a little wrong .. if it continues for a year in the same direction - our economy .. well, pick the word yourself .. and without enemy shells it will come to us ..
        2. 0
          8 October 2022 09: 14
          Look carefully at the photo of Brzezhinsky in the article itself .... - and remember the familiar character from A. Pushkin's fairy tale under the name of Kashchei the Immortal ...
    2. -1
      8 October 2022 00: 47
      Author:
      Brzezinski's The Great Chess Game is on a par with such works as Aristotle's Politics, Machiavelli's The Prince, and Huntington's Clash of Civilizations.

      —-The ideas of the authors were based on the unshakable foundation of the CONTINUITY OF DEVELOPMENT OF THE GEOPOLITICS OF THE STATES.

      —-The main reasons are geography and national character. They are destiny.

      Whatever Russia is, its relations with the West will inevitably be in conflict. And the same is true of the West.

      —-Over the reason for this is the desire for predictability… two tigers cannot live in the same territory.

      —-Therefore, the idea of ​​spheres of influence is a necessity for the prolongation of existence, and this is precisely the goal of striving for the predictability of states.

      —- The Great Game was given new life with the impetus of February 24th. America's sphere of influence cannot be the whole world for the existence of Russia. Or China. Or Iran… they are all subjects of History.

      —-And this is the objective necessity of a multipolar world. Russia is on the side of History!
  2. -3
    7 October 2022 16: 26
    Why should Russia impose sanctions, the West itself is doing it successfully and moreover, in the most painful way. In this chess game, we need to drive the enemy into zugzwang in the endgame. And we will be happy.
    1. man
      +3
      7 October 2022 18: 11
      In this chess game, we need to drive the opponent into zugzwang in the endgame. And we will be happy.
      Are you confident in the skill of our chief chess player?
      1. -3
        7 October 2022 18: 15
        He has been in power for 22 years, he can beat anyone, he started as a 1st discharger in Russia. Now he is a grandmaster in international affairs.
        1. man
          0
          7 October 2022 18: 47
          He has been in power for 22 years, he can beat anyone, he started as a 1st discharger in Russia. Now he is a grandmaster in international affairs.
          Giveaway Grandmaster
          1. -2
            7 October 2022 18: 57
            Giveaway is yours
            22 years old, could not find a leader for themselves. So our game is not over yet, we will play for a long time. Until the nuclear queens.
            1. man
              +1
              7 October 2022 19: 08
              Giveaway is yours
              22 years old, could not find a leader for themselves.

              Andrew??? request
              So our game is not over yet, we will play for a long time. Until the nuclear queens.
              About nuclear queens, I quoted below.
              By the way, congratulate your deputy on the acquisition of an apartment in Spain smile
              1. -3
                7 October 2022 19: 14
                And that earlier it was impossible to buy apartments wherever you want. Pay taxes and sleep peacefully. Somehow Zatulin does not worry about this apartment. He has already been sanctioned five times. apartments in my city, where he worked in the north. Before the default.
                1. man
                  +2
                  7 October 2022 19: 22
                  And that earlier it was impossible to buy apartments wherever you want.
                  I think if you are really a patriot, then must not.And officials and deputies, in particular, are not allowed. Involuntarily, you will be subjective! Buy in Russia.
                  1. -2
                    7 October 2022 19: 36
                    So in 2002 they were told that there was no need to invest in the West, they would take it away. And those who did not have time to sell were taken away.
                    1. man
                      -1
                      7 October 2022 19: 46
                      So in 2002 they were told that there was no need to invest in the West, they would take it away. And those who did not have time to sell were taken away.
                      Yes, I remember. We must pay tribute to Putin here. "You are tormented by swallowing dust ..." He started off generally well ...
        2. man
          +2
          7 October 2022 19: 59
          He has been in power for 22 years, he can beat anyone, he started as a 1st discharger in Russia. Now he is a grandmaster in international affairs.
          He will probably beat the heads of state. But the trouble is that the US presidents have powerful analytical centers, intelligent advisers, and intelligence that gives out a real picture. And we have ...
      2. 0
        7 October 2022 18: 55
        Quote: mann
        Are you confident in the skill of our chess player?

        An exceptionally good game. A clear implementation of the "Ost" plan, the recommendations of Allen Dulles and Sbignev B., according to the templates of the protocols of the Elders of Zion.
        The transformation of the country into a kind of planet Pfluk of the Kin-Dza-Dza galaxy, where the Patsaks (read the other way around - Russians in Ukrainian slang) are left with only tsaks, hang bells on their noses and force Ku in front of the "Chatlans" (these are those who have a lot of chatls (money )) to do, otherwise "Etsilop" (on the contrary - a policeman) can at any moment tranplyk and drive into the etsih.
        And the Government (chess players) already lives on another planet. In order to fly to the government and GDP, you need to have a gravicappa!
  3. 0
    7 October 2022 16: 30
    That's what chess is all about. Today you give your opponent a lesson, and tomorrow he will give you (c) B. Fischer.
    Each game, like actions, shows that you can’t refuse, don’t throw out the board, there is no other board, you can’t change horses (at or without crossing)
    Whoever thinks has the right moves.
    1. 0
      8 October 2022 17: 00
      Mathematics-chess is the only true teaching.
    2. 0
      9 October 2022 08: 21
      There is a way to play in checkers - "giveaway" ... But you can also play chess in this way ... Donkeys also belong to the horse family, but they will definitely not be taken to the other side. They are not capable - God did not give ... Therefore, the cunning European peasants came up with a witty trick. By the end of a long stick, a large, juicy carrot is hung on a string. The peasant gets into the wagon and holds the stick so that the carrot is right in front of the donkey's nose. He begins to reach for the carrot, goes after it, goes ... and the carrot is removed and removed. And until the donkey takes the load to where the owner needs, he will not receive a carrot.
  4. -1
    7 October 2022 16: 43
    "Thank you USA."


    Of course, "thank you" to the pirates of the United States, and what else can the "hyena of Europe" say, she's a hyena, after all, and not a good fairy.
    1. man
      0
      7 October 2022 18: 19
      and what else can the "hyena of Europe" say, after all, she is a hyena, and not a good fairy.
      More polite, no longer a hyena, but a beloved wife in the European harem of the Washington Sultan!
  5. +4
    7 October 2022 16: 47
    We are talking about changing the game of chess to a game, for example, of cards.
    "I sit down. I play. He tells me: nineteen. I say:" Show me. Show me! Or maybe there ... "And suddenly he says to me:" In our club it is customary for gentlemen to take their word for it! "And then I began to get lucky! Lucky and lucky!" (C)
    1. -1
      7 October 2022 16: 57
      Quote: parusnik
      "In our club it is customary for gentlemen to take their word for it!"

      And we say - "card cheats, hit in the face with candelabra."
      1. 0
        7 October 2022 17: 11
        In fact, we have great cine chess players: I have all the moves recorded! I. Horse walk the age of will to be seen!
        1. +6
          7 October 2022 17: 43
          Actually, we have great movie chess players:
          If Ostap knew that he plays such tricky games and faces such a tried defense, he would be extremely surprised. The fact is that the great strategist played chess for the second time in his life. At first the amateurs, and the first among them, the one-eyed one, were horrified. The grandmaster's cunning was undeniable. With extraordinary ease and, of course, sarcastic in his soul over the backward fans of the city of Vasyuki, the grandmaster sacrificed pawns, heavy and light pieces to the right and left. He donated even a queen to the brunette who was cursed at the lecture. The brunet was horrified and wanted to give up immediately, but only by a terrible effort of will forced himself to continue the game. (With)
  6. +5
    7 October 2022 16: 48
    Thus, Russia did not actually impose retaliatory sanctions, did not confiscate Western assets, and did not introduce state asset management of companies that left the Russian Federation. Yes, and the special operation is somehow strangely neat.
    . Weird, weird, weird and weird again!
    I also want to remind you that they have a clear, fundamental understanding ... if you want to defeat a strong country, make its elite YOURS!!!
    Does it lead to any thoughts??
    More ... wait and hope that the corpse of the enemy floats past, whenever, it's such a dumb thing ... you might not live to see it yourself.
    1. man
      +2
      7 October 2022 18: 38
      if you want to defeat a strong country, make its elite YOURS!!!
      ..Russia can have as many nuclear briefcases and nuclear buttons as you like, but since 500 billion dollars of the Russian elite are in our banks, you will figure it out: Is it your elite or already ours? I do not see any situation in which Russia will use its nuclear potential....“
      Brzezinski
      https://prostopollitik.mirtesen.ru/blog/43216849526/-Vyi-eschyo-razberites-eto-vasha-elita-ili-uzhe-nasha-amerikansk?ysclid=l8ymxqdmrf581000302
      Even the main patriot, deputy from Sochi, Konstantin Zatullin, marked himself with an apartment in Spain laughing
      1. +2
        7 October 2022 19: 56
        Servants of the people ... approach many and ask
        What people does he serve?
        We will not wait for a truthful answer, we are not like our ancestors, who knew how to ask, evaluate and put the final point ... having previously processed with green paint.
    2. +2
      8 October 2022 04: 55
      Chess pieces are one thing, but they do not refuse other means either. And if the Nord Streams were blown up, then why not do this with the Turkish.
      1. +1
        8 October 2022 08: 56
        Maybe the Sultan will be able to effectively guard his stream !!! Shoi then there is no hope for us anymore !!!
        Judging by how NATOshkins frolic in our rear!
        Interestingly, someone else will now say that nothing terrible is happening and you can continue to focus???
        About good morning, he won’t talk, but hello, Dmitry soldier
        1. +1
          8 October 2022 09: 22
          Quote: rocket757
          .... About good morning, he won’t talk, but hello, Dmitry soldier

          hi yes Victor, the news is not encouraging. Some analogies with the Russian-Japanese and WW1 arise. I chase them away, but the comparisons keep popping into my head. And the top ones don’t have such analogies, it turns out
          1. +1
            8 October 2022 09: 39
            I don’t even feel like writing, and it’s dangerous ... what the top ones have and what they don’t have ...
            And so ... only a comrade with a Mauser / revolver and a lot, a lot of greenery !!! could have made some difference to the situation.
            BUT, greenies, it’s not difficult to find, but comrades with a revolver ... you still have to look for them, but somehow it seems to me that you will have to go to one very quiet place from which they don’t return if there is no voodoo sorcerer nearby.
            Alas, this is how we live now ... or exist.
            1. +1
              8 October 2022 10: 11
              Quote: rocket757
              ...... what the top ones have and what they don't ....

              I remember the song from the cartoon
              something something the hippopotamus has something

              At least some good news has appeared, even though the New Year and Christmas holidays have been canceled on a large scale, good savings. There is nothing to jump and all sorts of large-scale concerts. If only the vile performances in the theaters were canceled and the dog with her husband and filthy chatter.
              1. +1
                8 October 2022 10: 41
                By the behavior of some responsible ones, it will be possible to judge whether they have yachts, mistresses, property, beloved children over the hill !!! Those. with which country they connect the future, and where is THEIR SIDE, in general.
                1. +1
                  8 October 2022 10: 47
                  Victor, there is no secret. Everything is known about their children. I once read it on purpose, but I quit, it became disgusting.
                  1. +1
                    8 October 2022 10: 53
                    We are standing on that ... or rather, we are falling somewhere.
                    There is, after all, before my eyes a clear example, when some kind, neither fish nor meat, becomes a straight hawk when his child was offended over a hillock!
                    And our people, in vain, gave up on such a circumstance / situation that our elka, considers itself not at all ours, completely and irrevocably!
                    There are many, unfortunately.
                    1. +1
                      8 October 2022 11: 14
                      Victor, after all, without the Internet, a lot of things were hidden, they didn’t write about one thing, about the other, the third .... They managed to hide a lot. I remember what fragmentary information about the war and the destruction of Yugoslavia was .... And the film NIKITA, the series, about their agents, where the Serbs were demonized ..... who understood ?, And whose hands are the newspapers and TV !? And the first Internet appeared with difficulty. And then it turned out ---- that's what.
                      1. +1
                        8 October 2022 12: 19
                        Dmitry ... much is not hidden, everyone knows and WHAT ???
                        A vicious system will exist, get out and defend themselves by any means!!!
                        And we .... are not those whom they will pay attention to until we become WE, something big, unified, DEMANDING ... until WE remind that they are for US, and not WE, for them!!?
                      2. +1
                        8 October 2022 17: 26
                        You see, Victor, I think that all that is wrong with us now is precisely as a result of those obstacles against unification. Developed during the destruction of the USSR. You remember the words of the redhead about privatization for the sake of destroying Soviet factories, close-knit teams. Then there was no job. The teams broke up, someone died much earlier from experiences and problems .... competitors came from neighboring countries ....
                        every man for himself

                        What about criminal elements? After all, if under socialism --- their qualities would have been realized differently, and not in the years of lack of money and permissiveness. Those years are named
                        liberal repression

                        It was anti-unification work and it continues to this day. Somewhat differently.
                      3. +1
                        8 October 2022 17: 40
                        The capitalist will always fight against the unification of the popular, working masses. This is the main thing.
      2. 0
        8 October 2022 17: 08
        To what extent do the "partners" have deviations from the plan proposed by Zbigniew Brzezinski: «AGAINST RUSSIA, AT THE EXPENSE OF RUSSIA AND ON THE RUINS OF RUSSIA"!?
        With mistakes. but. are going according to plan.. bully . A. What do we have!? belay
        hi
        1. 0
          10 October 2022 16: 58
          Is there a link to the source where Brzezinski says or writes this? And then, no matter how I searched, ours repeat it everywhere. And I have never found it in a source from Brzezinski himself.
  7. +1
    7 October 2022 17: 02
    The article is voluminous, but very interesting. Of course, Brzezinski looks at all this from the point of view of the United States and what they should do. But there is not one player at the chessboard, and even now there are not two, as in the days of the USSR. There are several.
    Yes, there is only one board, only there are more players, and this is already a different game in which the United States is waiting for surprises that they cannot foresee. Well, for example, the recent decision of OPEC to reduce oil production.
    Although the United States was confident that OPEC would take into account their wishes.
    So now things are much more complicated.
    Well, the Pole Brzezinski can be understood, there is nothing new in his hatred of Russia.
    I would just like to say that his Poland's attitude to the West is very conditional.
    The entire world order is being reformatted, which should lead to the creation of a new global security system.
    Destroyed the old west. In the new one, all the interests of Russia must be taken into account.
    The contours of what Russia wants were announced by the president on December 15, 21.
    1. +1
      7 October 2022 21: 43
      and why in general - the United States should take into account our interests? because otherwise Ukraine is a scribe? Yes, they don’t care about her .. she is for them more ours than theirs .. or what will we do to them, if they don’t take into account? The EU will fall apart, they will only be happy .. more suggestions?
  8. -1
    7 October 2022 18: 19
    The real game was between the two superpowers. One side, with its peaceful policy, managed to remove several military blocs from the map. Taking in friendly countries France, Sweden, Finland. But misfortune happened to one of the parties. And the game of giveaway began. And now there is a game of Chapaevs with recording moves. What to expect from this? I think nothing good. Or like in "Gentlemen of Fortune" uh, uh, uh. Or ... I just can’t imagine further.
  9. +3
    7 October 2022 18: 26
    The importance of chess for the development of strategic thinking is greatly overestimated.
    Chess sharpens the mind to perceive the situation as "spherical in a vacuum" - when you and your opponent have equal resources "at the start", when the opponent's steps are entirely calculable and predictable (you know how each of his pieces moves, you know and see all his pieces, his pieces are equivalent to yours), and finally that there are only you and your opponent on the board.
    In real life, all this is the paraphernalia of deeply hypothetical, rather even fantastic layouts. Often, serious wars were won not by killing the "king", but by methodically grinding his "figures" and the industry behind it, by the time of which the presence or absence of the "king" no longer played a role. Often, the forces competing in a war are far from equivalent, either at the start, or even in the process, or even at the end. Also, often the pieces on the board do not reflect the overall scale of the game, in which third-party forces join or some earlier participants leave the game. I am generally silent about the factor of the importance of concealing available resources - a solid part of the strategic balance rests on this factor, but not chess. In chess, there is no nuclear submarine sneaking up on the "king" with a full set of missiles, and there is no economic and industrial factor that can block the production and supply of something for a still combat-ready army.

    Any game in one way or another relies on rules that are relatively unchanging, unshakable. These are not necessarily direct rules, but are predictable or probabilistic changes that can be studied or accounted for as a factor. In real life, "black swans" are not at all uncommon, as is the change in certain "unwritten rules" that occur regularly within the general approach to "raising the stakes". Perhaps some rules will remain until the very end, or perhaps not - and rockets will fly, chymosis will flow and some bearded strains will pop up where no one expected them.
    What game if there can be no winner in it, or a winner FROM THE PLAYERS? This is what separates reality from simulations.
  10. -1
    7 October 2022 19: 51
    Denis Diderot was of the same opinion:

    "You can be a stupid person and at the same time a strong chess player."

    He simply knew that Kasparov would be born someday.
  11. 0
    7 October 2022 20: 26
    Say what you like, but our grandmasters have not yet gotten the hang of winning chess by engaging in information and sanctions wars.

    Our grandmeters simply don't have these resources, and therefore they don't know how to use them! First, you need to build up economic power, so that at least someone depends on it!
  12. +2
    7 October 2022 22: 03
    Judging by what is happening at the front, it’s time to stop laughing at Biden’s supposedly Alzheimer’s, as if we didn’t have to cry from the “Alzheimer” of our VG ...
  13. 0
    8 October 2022 14: 24
    Confusing article. Currently, there is another crisis of the cap system, the United States as an empire uses its capabilities to reduce and stop the crisis, due to the partial robbery of the EU and stimulate the economy by loading the military-industrial complex with the production of weapons. So far, the States are doing well.
  14. 0
    9 October 2022 14: 36
    Well, write to him. Chess is not theirs. Theirs is apples catalicism osvensum katyn (there is such a feeling that on April 10, 2010 they got rid of both katyn and unnecessary people). And why is cyberpunk 2077 in their head and they don’t have enough money for all this nonsense, and all sorts of reparations are required. So who are you? The answer is simple ordinary necromancers.
  15. 0
    10 October 2022 10: 42
    The author forgot to mention the Russian author Sergei Pereslegin with his book "A Tutorial for Playing on the World Chessboard". The forecasts are much more specific there, including those on relations with Ukraine. It is predicted that Crimea will be the first to return to its native harbor, then Novorossia. Accurate to several years. I recommend reading it. Many of the processes that are taking place now are described in the 2005 book.
    Including a very interesting forecast for Poland and Ukraine. If the elites of these countries agree, they will be the locomotive of the EU. Now we see that Poland and Ukraine are building a single state, Germany will soon be pushed off the pedestal and will take its place. From this point of view, undermining SP-1,2 is beneficial to the Poles. In general, all predictions based on knowledge come true.

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