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Global stability - economic as well as political - is at risk.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

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Zbigniew Brzezinski
Age: 89 †
Born: 1928
Born: March 28
Died: 2017
Died: May 26
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Former National Security Advisor
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Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzezinski
Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzeziński
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