United States of Eurasia/Collateral Damage Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Diarrhoea 

Cover art for United States of Eurasia/Collateral Damage lyrics by Muse

Matt Bellamy discussed this song in a recent interview with Zane Lowe.

"United States of Eurasia" refers to a book called "The Grand Chessboard" by a man called Zbigniew Brzezinski, a former United States National Security Advisor.

In the book, Brzezinski claims that if the countries of Europe and Asia were to ever unify into a super-continent, the USA would no longer be the dominant world superpower and there would be a massive war.

The United States of Eurasia would be a huge threat to America, so it is in the President's best interest to allow/encourage warfare between Eurasian countries, to prevent the continents from ever unifying.

This song is about how there will be endless war in Eurasia, allowed/propagated by the US President.

I think this is eerily true....

Logical, plausible, probable. Why is Obama prolonging conflict in the M.E by sending more troops into Afghanistan while at the same time pulling out of Iraq to let them sort it all out (wont happen)?

It all seems quite peculiar to me...

I don't think we need to worry about a "United States of Eurasia" in the near future, seeing how Asian and European governments and religions are so dissimilar. As much as I hate Obama's foreign policy, I definitely don't think he's provoking or prolonging fighting. As history has proven, incessant fighting in these regions is inevitable, therefore Obama would have no need to instigate anything.

Couldn't it be combining the UNITED STATES with EURASIA? I mean, everyone is saying how it's just Europe and Asia becoming United, but couldn't the USA be included too? I mean, when you mention the United States, the USA mainly pops into mind. So, USA+Europe+Asia = The United States of Eurasia, yes? And, of course, it could also reference 1984, with Eurasia being, well, Europe and Asia, excluding Britain, Ireland, and Eastern Asia.