{"id":113835,"date":"2025-12-27T11:20:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T16:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/?p=113835"},"modified":"2025-12-27T11:20:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T16:20:23","slug":"it-is-possible-to-defeat-even-the-strongest-arm-of-the-tyrant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/ru\/blog\/2025\/12\/27\/it-is-possible-to-defeat-even-the-strongest-arm-of-the-tyrant\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It Is Possible To Defeat Even the Strongest Arm of the Tyrant\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Report on IPC Meeting No.\u00a0134, Dec.\u00a026, 2025<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dec.\u00a026, 2025 (EIRNS)\u2014The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/zNtXD4-mLTo?si=kHD-lQUPt3ymmp5C\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">134th consecutive meeting<\/a>\u00a0of the International Peace Coalition opened with comments by Helga Zepp-LaRouche, Schiller Institute founder and initiator of the IPC. She emphasized that we are not experiencing a multitude of discrete crises, but rather an \u201cabsolute epochal change\u201d as the 500-year era of colonialism comes to an end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Reason, Immortality, and the Refusal to Be Small\u2014 IPC Meeting #134\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zNtXD4-mLTo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reviewing the situation in Europe, she said that the neocon narrative that the Russian invasion of Ukraine came out of the blue in 2022, unprovoked and with no prehistory, is no longer viable. The recently declassified conversations between Presidents Putin and George W. Bush simply underscore the fact that this war was entirely preventable. The West obviously knew that the stationing of nuclear- capable missiles along Russia\u2019s borders was crossing a \u201cred line.\u201d The idea that rearmament of Europe is the solution to Europe\u2019s economic collapse is \u201ceconomic stupidity.\u201d Free speech and free thought in Europe are under attack; the sanctioning of Jacques Baud, a respected and moderate analyst, exemplifies this. Elsewhere in the world, there are big warnings in the Israeli press of renewed aggression against Israel\u2019s neighbors after the Dec.\u00a029th visit of Netanyahu to the U.S., where he hopes to get the green light to attack. She concluded by saying, \u201cWe have to convince the Western governments to give up their arrogant idea\u201d that they must dominate the world. We must move from confrontation to cooperation. 2026 will be a year of decision. Rachel Clark, interpreter, consultant, and international coordinator between Japan and the United States, is a longtime activist for Veterans for Peace. She reminded the participants that the Ukraine war began at the latest in 2014, with the attack on eastern Ukraine by the Kiev regime which killed 14,000 Ukrainians. Keeping this fact in mind, she reported that the remilitarization of Japan, carried out despite that nation\u2019s postwar constitution, was instigated by pressure from the U.S. during the wars in Korea and Vietnam. The U.S. military is effectively an occupation force in that nation. Article 9 of the Japanese constitution, which formally renounces war as a sovereign right of the nation and prohibits the use of force to settle international disputes, has been overridden, despite protests by the Japanese populace. The power of the U.S.-Japan Joint Committee makes Japan\u2019s elected legislature, the Diet, into a Kabuki Theater. Japan, which has a land area equivalent to California, has 350 military installations. Japan may be used as a sacrificial pawn in a proxy war, much like Ukraine. Japan has become the \u201cposter child of Operation Mockingbird,\u201d referring to the CIA project of planting propaganda in corporate media news reports; the media do not report on U.S. provocations toward China, but cover China\u2019s responses as if they were unprovoked. A\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/40gKXu-rpm0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">video<\/a>\u00a0was presented with highlights from the Dec.\u00a014 youth conference of the Schiller Institute, featuring remarks from Helga Zepp-LaRouche, former South African Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Naledi Pandor, South African Ambassador to Mexico Beryl Sisulu, former Chief of Staff of the Senegalese Air Force Alain Charlemagne Pereira, and youth from a broad spectrum of African nations, Southwest Asia, and Japan. Larry Johnson, former CIA intelligence official and a member of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) asserted that there will be no agreement on Ukraine; the demands of the Ukrainians and Europeans are at odds with Russia\u2019s conditions for peace negotiations, which are that the West recognize the territories formerly in Eastern Ukraine as part of the Russian Federation, and that there be no NATO presence in Ukraine. Demilitarization and Denazification, the original stated goals of the Special Military Operation, are still in place and non-negotiable. The Ukraine war will be settled on the battlefield, Johnson insisted, and Europe is irrelevant. Europe is no longer the world\u2019s center of science and industrial production\u2014there is nothing that they can offer that other countries need. The Russians are sitting on the sofa with a big bag of popcorn, watching the U.S. and Europe quarrel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Regarding Venezuela, he pointed out that it is three times the size of Vietnam; the U.S. does not have the military capability to invade and control it. \u201cI have no idea why we have chosen Venezuela to be the so-called hill to die on.\u201d The U.S. is not in a position to achieve its goals through the use of military force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Dialogue<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zepp-LaRouche thanked Rachel Clark and insisted that we must somehow ensure that the true history of World War II is communicated to young people. Larry Johnson reminded the participants that Japan and Germany, which are now re-arming, were the axis powers in World War II. Our governments try to depict Russia and China as imperialist aggressor nations, but it is the West which has blood on its hands from innumerable conflicts it has initiated. Trump is boasting about his plan for \u201cTrump-class\u201d naval vessels, but he apparently hasn\u2019t heard about hypersonic missiles. The U.S. Navy could not stand up to the Houthis\u2014how can they challenge China?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zepp-LaRouche said that she cannot accept the prospect that Germany will go down in history as a nation which \u201cjust couldn\u2019t make it, like the Incas or the Mayans.\u201d Larry Johnson said he had never seen such a disconnect between the wishes of the populace in Europe and the U.S., and what their leaders are doing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Congressional candidate Jose Vega presented the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JosBtrigga\/status\/2003563372596588914\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">video<\/a>\u00a0of his Dec.\u00a023 intervention on Ritchie Torres, which has been seen by roughly 2 million people on assorted platforms. \u201cThese people are not authorities, they are clowns and should be addressed as such,\u201d he said.<br><strong>Open Discussion<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Frequent IPC participant John Steinbach recalled his long-working relationship with Rachel Clark, and observed that Japan has one of the world\u2019s largest stockpiles of plutonium and an \u201coff the shelf\u201d capability of building nuclear weapons in a relatively short interval of time. Clark proposed that port cities around the world collaborate to ban military vessels from their harbors if they are carrying nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A question came in from an online viewer: \u201cHow do you end poverty under capitalism?\u201d Zepp-LaRouche said that there is no poverty eradication program in either Europe or the U.S., as opposed to China, where it has been successful: In fact, China is responsible for 60% of poverty eradication worldwide. Later, co-moderator Dennis Small stressed that it is important to define what we mean by \u201ccapitalism.\u201d Do we mean financier speculation, or do we mean the American System approach typified by Alexander Hamilton, which is very similar to what China is doing today?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rachel Clark said that we should stigmatize those corporations that profit from war, and pressure companies like Raytheon or Lockheed Martin to retool for civilian production. Part of the enormous U.S. military budget should be diverted to enable high school students to visit the world outside the U.S., an invaluable educational experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Clark said this meeting gave her optimism and we must inspire younger generations to lead the fight for peace. Zepp-LaRouche recounted how she was shocked during her first visit to the U.S. at the way Germans were depicted in shows like \u201cHogan\u2019s Heroes.\u201d She proposed that we encourage a major project for young people to visit actual historical archives, rather than relying on the narrative factory in the popular media. We must persuade the citizens of our nations that they are responsible for changing the policies of their nations: \u201cIt is possible to defeat even the strongest arm of the tyrant, if they unite for a good plan.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Report on IPC Meeting No.\u00a0134, Dec.\u00a026, 2025 Dec.\u00a026, 2025 (EIRNS)\u2014The\u00a0134th consecutive meeting\u00a0of the International Peace Coalition opened with comments by Helga Zepp-LaRouche, Schiller Institute founder and initiator of the IPC. 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