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by Megan Dobrodt (EIRNS) — Russian special Envoy Kirill Dmitriev warned, “The closer we are to peace, the more desperate the warmongers become.” Credit Kirill Dmitriev Facebook page

“The closer we are to peace, the more desperate the warmongers become,” Kirill Dmitriev, Russian Special Envoy, commented of the rising panic among the British-led gaggle of bellicose fools, who would rather blow up the world than lose their Ukraine war gambit.

“The freakout level in Europe is a good indicator,” Helga Zepp-LaRouche said in her weekly webcast of Nov. 26, “that … the realities on the battlefield are enforcing the need to come to a conclusion of this war.”

Following days of panic by the European Coalition of the “Killing,” whose representatives met Nov. 23 in Geneva with neocon Marco Rubio and disgraced Ukrainian presidential aide Andrii Yermak to pretend that they still have some control over the outcome of the war, Bloomberg ran an article claiming to be a transcript of a leaked Oct. 14 phone call between U.S. Presidential Envoy Steve Witkoff and Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov, in which the two discuss a possible 20-point peace plan and how to get U.S. President Donald Trump on board. Western media immediately shrieked, in predictable and unified fashion, that the leak proves Russia’s control over U.S. negotiations and that Witkoff is a Russian pawn.

Russian responses to the article echo Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s comments days earlier about the leak of the plan itself, in which he observed, “Those who are orchestrating this fuss make no secret of their desire to undermine Trump’s [peace] efforts, and would like to change his plan to their liking.” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov remarked: “Probably, the calls advocating for Witkoff’s dismissal are primarily aimed at sabotaging the ongoing efforts for a peace resolution. Of course, many people will stop at nothing in attempts to disrupt this process.”

In his book War Is a Racket, Major General Smedley Butler wrote: “I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.”

What Butler experienced from the inside was the usurpation of the global financial system, paired with national military might, to serve the needs of the colonial system. Helga Zepp-LaRouche pointed to how this is working today: “The continuous outpouring of more weapons systems, combined with the AI and Bitcoin and Stablecoin bubble, that is right now the only place in the West where real profit is being made. But it’s all based on destruction of the real economy…. [I]n the liberal economy when a firm lays off 10,000 people, the stocks rise. Why? Because the so-called profitability of the firm goes up. But the real economy is being destroyed; labor jobs are being destroyed. Likewise with the investment in the military, you are destroying actual physical assets which are lacking elsewhere. You only have to look around in the United States or in Europe, and you can see the collapsing infrastructure, the not-repaired schools, the lack of cheap energy.”

A Nov. 5 report of the U.S. Federal Reserve betrays part of that picture: total U.S. household debt surged to a record $18.6 trillion in the third quarter of 2025, while delinquencies on credit card balances—at an all-time high—auto loans, student loans, and mortgages climb at an alarming rate. People are being eaten alive by a financial war system which is ready to blow out.

So, what is the way out? It is a fact in times as intense as the one that we are living through right now—when the danger of nuclear war is as close as victory over war itself—that enormous, paradigmatic change is possible. It is because the system is crashing, because the majority of people in the world are no longer willing to go along with an evil and crumbling empire system, that solutions like putting the entire financial system through Glass-Steagall bankruptcy reorganization, as called for by Lyndon LaRouche in his 2014 “Four New Laws To Save the U.S.A. Now!” could be implemented—a crucial step in reclaiming the banking system to serve the legitimate interests of humanity.

But now is not the time to stand on the sidelines—history is not a spectator sport.

“I think we are still not out of the woods,” Zepp-LaRouche warned, “and that’s why I think we have to absolutely increase our activities. I’m calling on all of you who are watching this: This is not a moment in history to just be complacent and watch things. We have to use every possible avenue to convince people that we have to overcome geopolitics. We have reached a moment in history where the idea that you continuously weaken your opponent because you have to have an enemy … or that there is necessarily a zero-sum game in which one wins and the other loses; all of these ideas are really obsolete and outdated. They must be replaced by the new thinking of the common interests of humanity first. Once you agree on that … then you can go and settle whatever problems are left…. We have to return to diplomacy as a conflict resolution mechanism; because in the times of nuclear weapons, it should be obvious to anybody that war as a means of settling conflicts must absolutely be put aside forever.”