The USA in Eurasia
The article "Geostrategy for Eurasia" by Zbigniew Bzhezinski was published in the USA last autumn (Nezavisimaya Gazeta, October 24, 1997). Aleksei Pushkov (Nezavisimaya Gazeta, November 14, 1997) rightly refers Bzhezinski to the authors, whose ideas don't reflect Washington's official point of view, though they reflect tendencies, spread in the American power structures. The tendency of the USA to consider itself a Eurasian country results inevitably from the mentioned article by Bzhezinski.
NATO ensures a US presence in Europe. After the collapse of the colonial empires of Great Britain and France, the USA successfully replaced these former mother countries in the Near and Middle East, having gradually created a number of subject nations from Egypt to Saudi Arabia. In the Far East the USA exerts its influence through the system of military treaties with Japan, Taiwan and South Korea. In the nineties the USA began its expansion into the territories of the former Soviet Union, first of all into Baltic countries, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan. In this expansion the USA has taken advantage of its special relationship with NATO and the "Partnership for Peace" programme. Now the USA is the political guarantor of the territorial integrity of Ukraine, while, according to some sources, Georgia is on the waiting list. The US administration openly declares its strategical interests in the Transcaucasus. Production and transportation of the Caspian oil are the grounds for such declarations.
Nevertheless, one should rather speak only of the powerful influence of the USA in Eurasia. Its status as an Eurasian country is still a long way off.
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