How To Get the World Back on Track | EIRNS

by Dennis Small (EIRNS) — Aug. 15 meeting in Anchorage, Alaska of Presidents Putin and Trump. Credit: Official White House photo by Daniel Torok.

EIR’s Daily Alert today pays special attention to a number of recent major policy statements coming out of Russia, for two reasons. First, they are of decisive importance if U.S.-Russian relations are to resume the productive path identified at the Aug. 15 Anchorage, Alaska summit between Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. This is imperative, in light of the otherwise growing danger of nuclear confrontation between the two nuclear superpowers. Second, these Russian statements are almost universally blacked out and censored in the Western media. In one case, Italy’s purported “newspaper of record”—Corriere della Sera—refused to publish a lengthy exclusive interview that Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov had granted them, just because they didn’t like the hard truths he told.

This is a case where what you don’t know could kill you.

Take the fact that Americans and Europeans have been told that Russia once again destroyed any chance of a peaceful settlement in Ukraine by thumbing their nose at Trump and sticking to their unreasonable hard line. But Lavrov revealed that Trump and Putin had reached a reasonable understanding at the Alaska summit on how to advance towards peace, but that—once again—it was the British and their obsequious European Leporellos who stepped in to sabotage “the Anchorage approach.” As Russia expert and founder of the VIPS (Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity), Ray McGovern, reminded the Nov. 14 meeting of the International Peace Coalition, that U.S. President Trump himself made it clear at the end of the Anchorage summit that he was under pressure to not meet with Russian President Putin. To the Russian President’s suggestion, spoken in English, “Next time in Moscow,” Trump replied: “Ooh, that’s an interesting one. I don’t know. I’ll get a little heat on that one, but I could see it possibly happening.”

Or, take the case that Americans and Europeans have been bombarded with the warning that Putin will invade all of Europe if he isn’t stopped in Ukraine. But the fact of the matter, as Lavrov advised Corriere’s readers—if they had only been allowed to read it in the newspaper—is that “President Putin came up with an initiative to set up a new architecture of equal and indivisible security in Eurasia. It is open for all the nations of the continent including its European part, but it requires polite behavior devoid of neo-colonial arrogance, on the basis of equality, mutual respect and balance of interests.”

Such a proposal is fully compatible with what was once bedrock American foreign policy, such as that of John Quincy Adams. And it is fully consistent with Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche’s call for a dialogue of civilizations and the creation of a new international security and development architecture, in which acting for the interest of the One Humanity creates the basis for satisfying the true interests of the Many different sovereign nation-states.

In her remarks to the Sept. 14 IPC meeting, Zepp-LaRouche elaborated:

“We absolutely have to increase our mobilization, because there is right now a Damocles’ sword hanging over the whole world. The Western economies are in terrible shape; the European economies are collapsing. France is in a state of collapse; Germany is in a free fall. Even worse, the everything bubble is the heliosphere, where the combination of the AI bubble mixed with the military side of that is what could detonate the whole situation at any moment.

“We need to increase our efforts to move the world into a New Paradigm,” Zepp-LaRouche stated. “The key is to get across to people the concept of what it means to be a state citizen. Because in many countries which are not republics, people have the feeling that they cannot do anything about the way things are going; that the government and other powerful circles decide things, and they feel small and unable to have any influence whatsoever. That may be true if you stay in the condition you are in; but if you start to, on the one side, ally yourself with other like-minded people, and then also develop yourself to be not just a subject like in the British Empire, where all the citizens are subjects, but that you want to be a fully-qualified state citizen.…

“In other words, we will only get out of this if a large number of people take it as their personal commitment to not remain just impotent masses, but to say, ‘I want to become a state citizen. I want to be able to think like a President, like a Minister, like a top-qualified expert. And I will engage in lifelong learning to be able to accomplish that.’ Because that is what is needed. The oligarchy and the empires only function if they have large masses of people who think they cannot do anything. Once you have large masses of people who are qualified to do something, the oligarchy will vanish, because they will not be tolerated. Then they will be replaced by republican structures. So, there is, unfortunately, no shortcut. You have to engage in a process of lifelong learning. And that’s actually a joyful thing to do.”