Brzezinski recommends calm on Syria

Zbigniew Brzezinski, a Presidential Assistant of Jimmy Carter and a leading US ideologist, urged Western states to avoid emotions towards Syria, RBC reports.

Most Syrians want President Bashar al-Assad to stay at power. There are localized facts of violence in Syria, not a mass civil war, he adds commenting on the massacre in Houla.

Brzezinski says that Russia wants to cooperate with the West and the US, but without their dictation.

Syria may become a conductor isolating interests of the Sunnis of Saudi Arabia and Shiites. Iraq would be totally destabilized. Iran would interfere.

The Shiites are the majority in Iran. They became the main political force after resignation of Saddam Hussein in Iraq.

Zbigniew Brzezinski is a US political analyst and state figure. He was one of the main ideologists of US foreign policy of the Cold War Era. He is an advisor and board member of the Center for Strategic and International Studies of the John Hopkins University. He wrote many books on geopolitics. He is notable for his critical approach to the USSR and Russia. “The Grand Chessboard” is one of his most famous books.