by Daniel Platt<\/p>\n\n\n\n
March 9, 2024 (EIRNS)\u2014The 40th consecutive weekly online meeting of the International Peace Coalition on March 8 opened with a warning from Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche<\/strong> that we are continuing to flirt with nuclear war. She cited the currently ongoing NATO \u201cSteadfast Defender\u201d exercise where 90,000 troops are explicitly rehearsing a war with Russia as an example of the supercharged environment. The mainstream media, rather than looking at the increasing danger of World War III, marked by the recent scandal of the leaked audio in which German military officers discuss covert means of directly entering the Ukraine war, are focusing their attention on speculation over who leaked the audio file.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Turning to the situation in Southwest Asia, she said that the conflict in Gaza is being driven by geopolitical motives and cannot be looked at separately from Ukraine. Several UN Special Rapporteurs are now calling it genocide, calling attention to the growing danger of starvation, and saying that it is intentional on the part of the Netanyahu regime. Investigation of genocide will inevitably bring us to the question of U.S. and German involvement and culpability. The Oasis Plan, as proposed by Lyndon LaRouche in 1975, provides the only way out of this ghastly situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Zepp-LaRouche\u2019s strategic overview<\/strong> was followed by military and intelligence experts who expanded on the nature of the war danger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Col. Richard Black (ret.)<\/strong>, former chief of the U.S. Army\u2019s Criminal Law Division at the Pentagon, observed that the Ukraine war was the lead item in President Biden\u2019s \u201cState of the Union\u201d address, underscoring that whenever a President says he won\u2019t send U.S. troops, it\u2019s almost a promise to do the opposite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n German Lt. Col. Ulrich Scholz (ret.)<\/strong>, a former NATO planner and lecturer on air warfare, warned: \u201cNATO nations have not trained together for decades, and are not capable of going to war. If the Americans don\u2019t do it, nobody\u2019s going to do it.\u201d <\/em>Regarding the war propaganda in Europe, he said, \u201cAll the war talk is a face-saving exercise. They want out.\u201d<\/em> His advice? \u201cLook for an area where we have common interests and stop the shooting.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Helga Zepp-LaRouche interrupted the proceedings to report that the U.S. Embassy in Moscow has now advised Americans that they should avoid large Moscow gatherings for 48 hours, as extremists plan to attack such events. Numerous countries that routinely ape U.S. foreign policy gestures have followed suit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Former U.S. diplomat, CIA officer, and vice-chair of the National Intelligence Council, Graham Fuller<\/strong> told the gathering: \u201cThe fundamental problem of world stability today lies in the inability of the United States to read the tea leaves, to understand the geopolitical shifts in the world today.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n He said that the U.S. is no longer the sole superpower; the U.S. can\u2019t face this reality, and this is the danger. \u201cOne of the problems of democracy is that you have to galvanize the entire population to go to war\u2026. You\u2019ve got to demonize the enemy, demonize Putin, make it a struggle between absolute good and absolute evil.\u201d<\/em> Fuller asserted that advocacy of democracy is being used as a weapon, but we don\u2019t support democracy when it is inconvenient. \u201cWe have a United States today which is perhaps the most ideologically driven nation in the world.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Prof. Richard Sakwa<\/strong>, British Emeritus Professor of Russian and European Politics at the University of Kent, warned: \u201cWe are now in the foothills of the Third World War.\u201d<\/em> He said that we should distinguish between two levels: the world as it was structured in response to the horrors of World War II, with the UN and international law in the spirit of \u201cNever Again\u201d; and the paradigm which replaced this after 1989, or what he termed the \u201cSecond Cold War.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the first Cold War, diplomacy continued. But when Obama expelled the Russian diplomats in response to unproven allegations, diplomacy was being destroyed. \u201cA political West emerged based on Cold War thinking.\u201d<\/em> Sakwa said that there is an emerging consensus against this in the \u201cPolitical East.\u201d They promote an idea of commonwealth, in opposition to the imperialism of the West. \u201cThe Global South and Political East can hold us back from moving from the foothills to the peaks of a Third World War.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Mexican Congressman Benjam\u00edn Robles Montoya\u2019s statement<\/a><\/strong> March 6 on the floor of Mexico\u2019s Chamber of Deputies, was shown to all assembled. The Congressman emphasized, \u201cWe have reached the precipice of nuclear war\u2026. Achieving peace through development, that is the path.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Prof.\u00a0Steve Starr<\/strong>, the former director of the University of Missouri’s Clinical Laboratory Science Program and published author in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists warned that the war danger is heightened by the fact that Joe Biden is up for re-election, and can\u2019t be seen to be losing the war in Ukraine. He said that \u201cthe danger of nuclear war is greatly exacerbated by false narratives,\u201d<\/em> such as the one where we can use tactical nukes to make Russia back down. The electromagnetic pulse generated from a single nuclear weapon, detonated above the U.S., could take out our entire electrical power grid, all solid-state circuitry and computers. An 800-kiloton nuclear weapon detonated directly over a target such as Manhattan would ignite a firestorm over an area of 100-150 square miles. Each side has thousands of nukes, and the resulting smoke and soot created from their nuclear detonations would form a global stratospheric layer reducing the sunlight reaching the Earth’s surface and halting agriculture for 10 years, in what is called \u201cnuclear famine.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n George Koo<\/strong>, retired specialist in U.S.-China trade, concurred with Colonel Black: The U.S. has a tendency to say one thing and do the opposite. He said that the U.S. is sending a signal to the Philippines and Taiwan, encouraging them to start proxy wars with China. The P.R.C. government fully recognizes who is behind this. They will take out U.S. naval forces in their neighborhood in response.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Humanity for Peace coordinator Anastasia Battle<\/strong> presented a report on the March 2 meeting in Detroit, \u201cEmergency Conference for Peace in Gaza: The Children of God Cry Out for Justice,\u201d at New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit, the historic church of C.L. Franklin, where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.\u00a0delivered a speech in 1966. Nine videos of the speakers are now available<\/strong><\/a> on YouTube.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ray McGovern<\/strong>, co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, reminded the participants that President John F. Kennedy, during his June 10, 1963 speech at American University, warned that we should never give an adversary a choice between humiliating defeat, and nuclear war. Now this very choice is being presented to Russian President Vladimir Putin at re-election time. He presented his assessment of Vladimir Putin: \u201cI would say he\u2019s a statesman, and he\u2019s a pretty cool customer.\u201d<\/em> McGovern went on to wryly quote former President George W. Bush: \u201cDon\u2019t \u2018misunderestimate\u2019 the Russians.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n McGovern presented some provocative speculation about the recent resignation of State Department harpy Victoria Nuland. He pointed out that we haven\u2019t seen the entire leak from the German officers. If Russia intercepted it, so did the U.S. National Security Agency. Maybe Nuland was working behind everyone\u2019s back with German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius to transfer Taurus missiles to Ukraine. McGovern emphasized that this is speculation, but as likely an explanation as any.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This was followed by a discussion session in which many new participants introduced themselves. In conclusion, Helga Zepp-LaRouche<\/strong> recommended that the Americans ally with the Global South. \u201cThe signs of hope are small, but sometimes when you are in a crisis, even small signs of hope can cause a shift.\u201d<\/em> She reported, as such a sign of hope, the growing number of leaders who have endorsed Lyndon LaRouche\u2019s Oasis Plan<\/a><\/strong> for peace in Southwest Asia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Daniel Platt March 9, 2024 (EIRNS)\u2014The 40th consecutive weekly online meeting of the International Peace Coalition on March 8 opened with a warning from Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche that we are continuing to flirt with nuclear war. 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