Editing Zbigniew Brzezinski (section)

====Arms control====
{{see also|Arms control}}Zbigniew Brzezinski utilized the United States' need to stability and progress in political relations with the Soviet Union to spur on the call for a new strategic arms treaty. On April 5, 1979, Brzezinski made a speech at the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations where he stated that competition between the two powers and the nuclear arms race would not simply end because of the accord. According to him, the projected strategic arms treaty that would intend to impose limits on power such as missiles and bombers through the year 1989, would be what contributes to the progress and confidence in Soviet-American relations.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Times |first=Richard Burt Special to The New York |date=1979-04-05 |title=BRZEZINSKI DEFENDS ARMS TREATY IMPACT |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1979/04/05/archives/brzezinski-defends-arms-treaty-impact-says-new-agreement-with.html |access-date=2023-04-04 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

He aimed to frame his arms control policy in a way that portrayed it as favorable to create, ensure, and maintain Soviet-American relations.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Garrison |first=Jean A. |date=December 2001 |title=Framing Foreign Policy Alternatives in the Inner Circle: President Carter, His Advisors, and the Struggle for the Arms Control Agenda |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/0162-895X.00262 |journal=Political Psychology |language=en |volume=22 |issue=4 |pages=775–807 |doi=10.1111/0162-895X.00262 |issn=0162-895X}}</ref> Leading up to the presidential election in 1980, the Carter administration set sight on confronting Ronald Reagan on arms control agreements with Moscow. On this issue, Brzezinski believed that to continue moving safely ahead with talks to control atomic arms with Moscow, despite Soviet troops holding position in Afghanistan, the United States needed to remain firm in containing Soviet expansionism.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Getler |first=Michael |date=July 23, 1980 |title=Administration Willing to Confront Reagan on Arms Limits |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1980/07/23/administration-willing-to-confront-reagan-on-arms-limits/07de844e-dc73-4dad-ba0f-12e0b21c5f18/}}</ref>

Overall, Zbigniew Brzezinski’s arms control views leaned skeptical and mistrusting of Soviet motives in general and emphasized the central importance of the East-West competition. On the other hand, other officials such as the Secretary of State Cyrus Vance worked to pave a way for a wider US-Soviet relationship. Arms control in Brzezinski’s terms would take any opportunity to halt or reduce the momentum of the Soviet buildup.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Garrison |first=Jean A. |date=2001 |title=Framing Foreign Policy Alternatives in the Inner Circle: President Carter, His Advisors, and the Struggle for the Arms Control Agenda |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3792486 |journal=Political Psychology |volume=22 |issue=4 |pages=775–807 |doi=10.1111/0162-895X.00262 |jstor=3792486 |issn=0162-895X}}</ref>[[File:Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff with National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski and the other members of Joint Chiefs of Staff.jpg|thumb|Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff with National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski and the other members of Joint Chiefs of Staff during a National Security Council Meeting at The White House on October 5, 1978.]]
[[File:Carter Brezhnev sign SALT II.jpg|thumb|350px|President [[Jimmy Carter]] and Soviet General Secretary [[Leonid Brezhnev]] sign the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks ([[SALT II]]) treaty, June 18, 1979, in Vienna (Austria). Brzezinski is directly behind President Carter.]]