Joachim Hagopian From the summary of the 2015 published book entitled Ukraine: ZBIG’s Grand Chessboard & How the West Was Checkmated: Ukraine: ZBIG’s Grand Chessboard & How the West Was Checkmated speaks to the historical and geostrategic moves by the West to control the Eurasian landmass: the broken promises and treaties, the geostrategic missteps and, finally, how Grand Chessboard fundamentalism actually catalyzed Russia’s re-emergence as a global power, shifted geostrategic power eastward and, proverbially, snatched defeat from the jaws of a U.S./NATO victory. Seven years later based on today’s grand chessboard stage, the…