Former US National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski dies at age 89

Mr. Brzezinski is a foreign scholar of considerable influence in global affairs, both before and after his White House career.

Zbigniew Brzezinski, a strategist and national security adviser to US President Jimmy Carter in the late 1970s, died on Friday (May 26, US time) at a hospital in Virginia. He was 89.

His daughter, Mika Brzezinski, reported her father's death at Inova Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church on Friday.

Former US National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski passed away at the age of 89. Photo: NYT.

Like his predecessor Henry A. Kissinger, Mr. Brzezinski is an expatriate (he in Poland, Mr. Kissinger in Germany) who has wielded considerable influence in global affairs, both before and after his time in the White House. In speeches, interviews, and television appearances over the decades, he has covered six successive administrations, including that of Donald J. Trump.

Mr. Brzezinski, a Democrat, was one of the few foreign policy experts who warned against the Iraq war in 2003.

He is considered to have contributed to the normalization of diplomatic relations between the US and China, reaching an agreement for the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (SALT II) and the signing of the Torrijos-Carter Treaties giving up US control of the Panama Canal after 1999./.

According to VOV