Zbigniew Brzezinski: Two basic steps are thus required: first to identify the geostrategically dynamic Eurasian states that have the power to cause a potentially important shift in the international distribution of power and to decipher the central external goals of their respective political elites and the likely consequences of their seeking to attain them; (...) second to formulate specific U.S. policies to offset, co-opt, and/or control the above. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote8047