# Quote — Zbigniew Brzezinski, The Grand Chessboard

> The most immediate task is to make certain that no state or combination of states gains the capacity to expel the United States from Eurasia or even to diminish significantly its decisive arbitration role.

- Author: [Zbigniew Brzezinski](https://www.leafyquotes.com/zbigniew-brzezinski.md)
- Book: [The Grand Chessboard](https://www.leafyquotes.com/zbigniew-brzezinski/the-grand-chessboard.md)
- Page: 198
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> Moreover, as America becomes an increasingly multi-cultural society, it may find it more difficult to fashion a consensus on foreign policy issues, except in the circumstance of a truly massive and widely perceived direct external threat.

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> With the more endowed nations constrained by their own higher technological capacity for self-destruction as well as by self interest, war may have become a luxury that only the poor peoples of this world can afford.

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> To put it very simply, anyone can become an American, but only a Chinese can be Chinese - and that places an additional and significant barrier in the way of any essentially national global hegemony.

p. 210 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/zbigniew-brzezinski/the-grand-chessboard/to-put-it-very.md)