Reindeer and a traditional dwelling in the Siberian tundra, homeland to indigenous peoples and non-Slavic republics of the Russian Federation. Photo: Lenorlux.
Dr. Brezinski was also Foreign Policy Institute Senior Fellow at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. The school announced, “The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and its Foreign Policy Institute are pleased to introduce The Brzezinski Initiative, in honor of Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski’s legacy…a unique set of academic programs that…will equip a new generation of policy experts capable of the authoritative analysis, strategic vision, and active diplomacy that were hallmarks of Dr. Brzezinski’s role as a scholar, policy advisor, and statesman.”
The Brzezinski Initiative celebrates his legacy by launching:
In addition, Dr. Brezinski was a Director of other leading foreign policy organizations: The Atlantic Council, The Jamestown Foundation, Council on Foreign Relations, and National Endowment for Democracy.
With funding from David Rockefeller, Dr. Brezinski founded The Trilateral Commission, of which he was a trustee. He was also a trustee of Freedom House, and Vice Chair of the International Crisis Group.
While Dr. Brezinski’s acolytes in the foreign policy establishments in the United States and Europe promote his vision for the political fragmentation of Russia, the exploitation of its oil and natural gas resources by Western companies, with an anti-Russian Ukraine essential for its success, their plans are even more radical.
The first proposal came from the U.S. government, indirectly, through Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty. Radio Free Europe was created in 1949 by the National Committee for a Free Europe, a CIA front organization. Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty were funded by the CIA until 1971, thereafter, by the U.S. Congress.2 Seven months after the 2014 coup in Kyiv, Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty posted an article by Dmytro Sinchenko entitled “In anticipation of World War III. How the world will change.”3
The article called on the West to launch proxy wars against Moscow from within Russia. “How can large-scale destruction of an alleged nuclear war be prevented? The world powers, in fact, have the only option – a war within Russia itself. People’s uprising, democratic revolution and national liberation wars of various republics. Putin will not shoot nuclear weapons on his territory.”4 No, he would fire nuclear missiles at the capitals of Western countries instigating wars to erase Russia from the map. It is called the Samson option.5 The author adds the proxy wars will split Russia into a number of “independent” states and so exhaust the United States and EU the world order will collapse enabling Ukraine to “play a significant role in world transformation.”6
In his scenario, Russia’s eastern border would be the Ural Mountains. Siberia would go to China. Russia’s northern border would be the Barents and Kara Seas of the Arctic Ocean. Russia would have no access to the Baltic Sea, Black Sea, Sea of Azov, Caspian Sea, or Pacific Ocean. The Kuriles and Sakhalin would go to Japan. Southern Russia to the Caspian Sea would be awarded to Ukraine. “Over time, the EU will include the states [notice the plural] formed on the site of the European part of Russia.”7 (Map 15)
Map 158
Eurasia’s borders after World War III
This map has a striking similarity to the 1941 map on partitioning the Soviet Union by Nazi ideologist and Reich Minister for the Occupied Eastern Territories, Alfred Rosenberg.9 (Map 16)
Map 1610
The next noteworthy proposal came directly from the U.S. government. On June 23, 2022, the U.S. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, also known as U.S. Helsinki Commission, held a videoconference on “Decolonizing Russia: A Moral and Strategic Imperative.”11
In the words of the Commission’s Senior Policy Advisor, Bakhti Nishanov, “And that brings us to the subject of today’s discussion, the issue of decolonizing Russia…I want to make it clear: These conversations are not new…But it is after the start of Russia’s war in Ukraine that serious discussions are now underway about reckoning with Russia’s imperialism and the need to colonize Russia [Freudian slip?] for it to become a viable stakeholder in European security and stability.”12
According to the official website of the U.S. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, aka U.S. Helsinki Commission, “Public Law 94-304 of June 3, 1976, established the Helsinki Commission, authorizing and directing it ‘to monitor the acts of the signatories which reflect compliance with or violation of the articles of the Final Act…with particular regard to the provisions relating to human rights and Cooperation in Humanitarian Fields.’ The mandate extends to other areas covered by the Final Act, including economic cooperation and the exchange of people and ideas between participating States.”13
But, government agencies are self-perpetuating entities, which as with “the camel’s nose” seek to expand their space. So…“The end of the Cold War has allowed for the expansion of commitments to new areas, such as free and fair elections and the rule of law, while regional conflicts have required intense focus on more robust U.S. and international policy responses to serious violations of a broader range of Helsinki principles, such as territorial integrity and sovereignty.”14
Except in the cases of Yugoslavia, Union of Serbia and Montenegro, and Serbia where “territorial integrity and sovereignty” were violated by the West, which abolished the first two political entities and redrew the borders of the third.
The significance of this Commission for U.S. Foreign policy is its membership. There are “nine members from the U.S. House of Representatives, nine members from the United States Senate, and one member each from the Departments of State, Defense, and Commerce. The positions of chairman and co-chairman are shared by the House and Senate and rotate every two years, when a new Congress convenes. A professional staff assists the Commissioners in their work.”15
The following month, July 2022, Failed State: A Guide to Russia’s Rupture was released. The author, Janusz Bugajski, is a Senior Fellow at The Jamestown Foundation. One of the think tanks where Dr. Brzezinski was on the Board of Directors.16 And at which his geostrategic vision left a lasting impression. Mr. Bugajski wrote:
“Although the Helsinki Final Act declares that the borders of Europe are inviolable, it does not confirm that they are necessarily final…17 The US must develop an effective strategy for managing Russia’s rupture by supporting regionalism and federalism, acknowledging sovereignty and separation… It is in the direct national security interests of the United States to help Russia either to federalize or fracture, to decentralize or disintegrate…”18
Fracturing Russia would entail ”ethnic cleansing.” Mr. Bugajski writes “this could involve purging ethnic Russians from significant political positions, confiscating Russian-owned businesses, and even expelling Russian populations viewed as a potential fifth column for Muscovite subversion… in order to ensure ethnic homogeneity or to seize territory and create larger states.”19 What the West condemned in Yugoslavia, it promotes for a future, fragmented Russia. Doublethink: “to repudiate morality while laying claim to it.”
Dr. Brzezinski’s geostrategic vision to splinter Russia into a multiplicity of Western client states is promoted by international actors as well. One of the most important is the Lennart Meri Conference. This annual event is organized by The International Centre for Defence and Security; Estonia’s leading think tank created by the Estonian Government in 2006.
According to NATO’s website “This annual gathering of security experts and policymakers provides a platform for frank discussions on critical regional and global foreign and security issues, with a particular focus on Northern and Eastern Europe…they invite participants to consider how best to respond to Russia’s aggression in Ukraine, ensure continued support for Ukraine’s defence efforts and Euro-Atlantic integration, and reinforce the collective security of the West.20
NATO officials participate at these events. On May 17, 2024, General Philippe Lavigne, NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Transformation, addressed the conference on the new arms race with Russia.21
The Organization for World Peace reported footage from the May 16-18, 2024 Lennart Meri Conference “seems to reveal a new goalpost for the E.U. in regards to the Ukraine-Russia conflict. The former Estonian Prime Minister and incoming E.U. foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas spoke before the conference asserting that ‘Russia’s defeat is not a bad thing, because […] there are many different nations a part of Russia,’ concluding that ‘if you have small nations it’s not a bad thing if the big power is much smaller.’”22
Another very active international actor is The Free Nations of Post-Russia Forum. It was founded May 8, 2022 by Oleg Magaletsky. His biography on Ukrainian Wikipedia identifies him as a participant in Orange Revolution I and Orange Revolution II, and at various times a restaurant owner, project manager of a brewery, and general director of an internet provider.23 It does not say how, or from whom, he obtained funding to start the forum.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reported the forum is registered in Poland.24 According to The Jamestown Foundation, The Free Nations of Post-Russia Forum was organized by Polish, Lithuanian, and Ukrainian non-governmental organizations (NGOs).25 But the NGOs are not identified. Today, as in the Cold War, some NGOs are fronts for foreign intelligence agencies.26 27
The Free Nations of Post-Russia Forum aims to ” ’create an armed army’ and, together with ‘trained Western specialists, enter Russian territory and achieve its complete liquidation.’”28 It calls on the West to recognize “the Russian Federation is a terrorist state and a source of nuclear threat, and that the preservation of a ‘united and indivisible Russia’ is the greatest threat to the free world today.”29
On April 16, 2025, at its forum in Washington DC. The Free Nations of Post-Russia declared “Given that non-violent civilian methods of resistance have become obsolete, coercive actions to overthrow the regime remain as the only option. We therefore call on supporters of freedom and independence to coordinate with each other, in particular with regards to guerilla activities and acts of sabotage, by setting in motion the Rebel and Liberation Armies in the territories of captive nations and colonial regions still occupied by the Kremlin…”30
The Free Nations of Post-Russia Forum calls for splitting Russia into 41 separate states. Its goal is “Decolonization, liberation from occupation and colonial oppression of Muscovy, the creation of new geopolitical entities, as well as the subsequent Reconstruction of future independent states of post-Russian space: Tatarstan, Ural Republic, Sakha, Bashkortostan, United States of Siberia, Karelia, Circassia, Ingushetia, Baltic Republic Karaliaučius – East Prussia, Ingushetia, Buryatia, Pacific Federation, Nogai El, Tyva, Chuvashia, Don Republic, Tyumen-Yugra Federation, Komi, Republic of Tver, Altai, Kuban, Volga Federation, Byarmia, Iriston, Novgorod Republic, Smalandia, Zalessye Federation, Khakassia, Pskov Republic, Kumykia, Koland (Murmansk area), Republic of Chernozemye and others.”31 (Map 17)
Map 1732
In “Putin’s War and the Dangers of Russian Disintegration,” Foreign Affairs, December 9, 2022, Marlene Laruelle, Director and Research Professor at the Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, George Washington University, noted calls of participants at The Free Nations of Post-Russia Forum for the “liberation of enslaved peoples” echoes the calls of the CIA sponsored anti-Bolshevik Block of Nations (ABN) during the Cold War.
1 “The Zbigniew Brzezinski Initiative,” Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, https://sais.jhu.edu/faculty-research/research-centers-institutes-and-initiatives/zbigniew-brzezinski-initiative
2 A. Ross Johnson, “Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty,” Cold War International History Project, The Wilson Center, December 6, 2012, https://www.wilsoncenter.org/publication/radio-free-europe-and-radio-liberty
3 Dmytro Sinchenko “Waiting for the Third World War. How the world will change,” Radio Svoboda (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty), September 1, 2014, https://www.radiosvoboda.org/a/26560956.html
4 Dmytro Sinchenko “Waiting for the Third World War. How the world will change,” Radio Svoboda (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty), September 1, 2014, https://www.radiosvoboda.org/a/26560956.html
5 Louis René Beres, “Israel and the “Samson Option” in an Interconnected World,” Modern War Institute at West Point, United States Military Academy, November 16, 2018,https://mwi.westpoint.edu/israel-samson-option-interconnected-world/
6 Dmytro Sinchenko “Waiting for the Third World War. How the world will change,” Radio Svoboda (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty), September 1, 2014, https://www.radiosvoboda.org/a/26560956.html
7 Dmytro Sinchenko “Waiting for the Third World War. How the world will change,” Radio Svoboda (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty), September 1, 2014, https://www.radiosvoboda.org/a/26560956.html
8 Dmytro Sinchenko “Waiting for the Third World War. How the world will change,” Radio Svoboda (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty), September 1, 2014, https://www.radiosvoboda.org/a/26560956.html
9 “Alfred Rosenberg: Biography,” Holocaust Encyclopedia, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, April 18, 2025, https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/alfred-rosenberg-biography
10 Martin Gilbert, Atlas of Russian History, Dorset Press, 1985, p. 122, Atlas of Russian History : Martin Gilbert : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
11 “Decolonizing Russia: a Moral and Strategic Imperative,” The Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, also known as the U.S. Helsinki Commission,” Thursday, June 23, 2022, 10:00 am https://www.csce.gov/briefings/decolonizing-russia-a-moral-and-strategic-imperative
12 “Commission on Security & Cooperation in Europe: U.S. Helsinki Commission “Decolonizing Russia: A Moral and Strategic Imperative, Unofficial Transcript,” Thursday, June 23, 2022, https://www.csce.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/0623-Decolonizing-Russia-A-Moral-and-Strategic-Imperative.pdf
13 “Commission on Security & Cooperation in Europe: U.S. Helsinki Commission, “Our History,” https://www.csce.gov/our-history
14 “Commission on Security & Cooperation in Europe: U.S. Helsinki Commission, “Our History,” https://www.csce.gov/our-history
15 Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, U.S. Helsinki Commission, “Structure,” https://www.csce.gov/our-structure
16 Hassan Abbas, “Brzezinski Joins Jamestown Foundation Board, The Jamestown Foundation, August 22, 2003, https://jamestown.org/press-releases/brzezinski-joins-jamestown-foundation-board/
17 Janusz Bugajski , “FAILED STATE A Guide to Russia’s Rupture,” The Jamestown Foundation, Washington, DC 2022, Pp. 352, https://jamestown.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Russias-Rupture-MS-full-text-Final-web.pdf
18 Janusz Bugajski , “FAILED STATE A Guide to Russia’s Rupture,” The Jamestown Foundation, Washington, DC 2022, p.431, https://jamestown.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Russias-Rupture-MS-full-text-Final-web.pdf
19 Janusz Bugajski , “FAILED STATE A Guide to Russia’s Rupture,” The Jamestown Foundation, Washington, DC 2022, p. 328. https://jamestown.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Russias-Rupture-MS-full-text-Final-web.pdf
20 “NATO Supreme Allied Commander Transformation at Lennart Meri Conference,” NATO, May 17, 2024, https://www.act.nato.int/article/sac-lennart-meri/
21 NATO Supreme Allied Commander Transformation at Lennart Meri Conference,” NATO, May 17, 2024, https://www.act.nato.int/article/sac-lennart-meri/
22 Billy Haller, “Incoming EU Foreign Minister Approves Of Breaking Russia Into Smaller States,” The Organization for World Peace, August 6, 2024, https://theowp.org/incoming-eu-foreign-minister-approves-of-breaking-russia-into-smaller-states/
23 “Oleg Volodymyrovych Magaletsky,” Ukrainian Wikipedia, January 12, 2024 https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Магалецький_Олег_Володимирович
24 “Russia Labels Poland-Registered Forum As An ‘Undesirable Organization,” Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, March 17, 2023 https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-undesirable-organization-free-nations-of-post-russia-forum/32323120.html
25 Vadim Shtepa, “Responding to Moscow’s Imperial Revanchism, a “Post-Russia” Forum Is Born,” Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 19 Issue: 122, The Jamestown Foundation, August 10, 2022, Responding to Moscow’s Imperial Revanchism, a “Post-Russia” Forum Is Born – Jamestown
26 Devon Douglas-Bowers, “NGOs: Missionaries of Empire,” Foreign Policy Journal, March 10, 2012,https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2012/03/10/ngos-missionaries-of-empire/
27 Kit Klarenberg, “Anatomy of a Coup: How CIA front laid foundations for Ukraine war,” MRonline, July 1, 2022, https://mronline.org/2022/07/06/anatomy-of-a-coup/
28 “Forum of increasingly clear demands. The 5th Forum of free peoples of post-Russia was held in Brussels,” Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, February 1, 2023, https://www.idelreal.org/a/32247389.html
29 Alya Shandra, “Last colonial empire in Europe” must fall, nations subjugated by Russia call in Vilnius,” Euromaidan Press, June 15, 2024, https://euromaidanpress.com/2024/06/15/last-colonial-empire-in-europe-must-fall-nations-subjugated-by-russia-call-in-vilnius/
30 “Free Nations of Post Russia Forum: The Capitol Summary” The Jamestown Foundation, Washington D.C., April 16, 2025, 6635ef44eee491abaafce7e5_The Capitol Summary.pdf
31 “Freedom & Prosperity,” The Free Nations of Post-Russia Forum, 2023, https://www.freenationsrf.org/en
32 “Freedom & Prosperity,” The Free Nations of Post-Russia Forum, 2023, https://www.freenationsrf.org/en
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