Zbigniew Brzezinski: Difference between revisions - Wikipedia

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Brzezinski left office concerned about the internal division within the Democratic party, arguing that the [[dovish]] McGovernite wing would send the Democrats into permanent minority. [[Ronald Reagan]] invited him to stay on as his National Security Adviser, but Brzezinski declined, feeling that the new president needed a fresh perspective on which to build his foreign policy.<ref>{{cite news|date=May 29, 2017|title=Reagan poprosił Brzezińskiego, by został także jego doradcą|publisher=TVN24.pl|url=http://www.tvn24.pl/wiadomosci-ze-swiata,2/john-hamre-reagan-chcial-by-brzezinski-zostal-jego-doradca,743913.html|access-date=June 1, 2017}}</ref> He had mixed relations with the [[Reagan administration]]. On the one hand, he supported it as an alternative to the Democrats' [[pacifism]]. On the other hand, he also criticized it as seeing foreign policy in overly black-and-white terms.{{citation needed|date=May 2017}}

By the 1980s, Brzezinski argued that the general crisis of the Soviet Union foreshadowed communism's end.{{cn|date=September 2024}}

He remained involved in Polish affairs, critical of the imposition of [[martial law in Poland]] in 1981, and more so of the Western European acquiescence to its imposition in the name of stability. Brzezinski briefed U.S. vice president [[George H. W. Bush]] before his 1987 trip to Poland that aided in the revival of the Solidarity movement.{{Citation needed|date=May 2017}}