We didn't push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would.

The SCC was always chaired by Brzezinski a circumstance he had to negotiate with Carter to achieve. The Trilateral Commission is a group of prominent political and business leaders and academics primarily from the United States Western Europe and Japan. He actively supported Polish Solidarity and the Afghan resistance to Soviet invasion and provided covert support for national independence movements in the Soviet Union.

He appears frequently as an expert on the PBS program The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer ABC News' This Week with Christiane Amanpour and on MSNBC's Morning Joe where his daughter Mika Brzezinski is co-anchor. client state to an anti-Western Islamic Republic encouraging dissidents in Eastern Europe and emphasizing human rights in order to undermine the influence of the Soviet Union; the financing of the mujahideen in Afghanistan in response to the Soviet deployment of forces there and the arming of these rebels to counter the Soviet invasion; and the signing of the Torrijos-Carter Treaties relinquishing overt U.