Never before has the famous “American hawk” Zbigniew Brzezinski criticized US policy so sharply as in this book. Times are changing, the world is becoming multipolar, and if the United States does not reconsider its concept of the global role of “God’s chosen hegemon in world politics,” then they will face exactly the same systemic crisis that destroyed the USSR in its time, he believes. How to help America understand its position in the new political system of the 21st century and find a counterbalance to the rapidly growing China, which is increasingly influencing geopolitics? How to establish a balance between East and West and what role should Europe play in this? What proposals should the United States make to Russia in the very near future in order to draw it into the orbit of interests of the “Big West”? Brzezinski seeks and finds answers to these and many other important questions of our time...