{"id":114842,"date":"2026-02-17T14:51:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T19:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/?p=114842"},"modified":"2026-02-17T14:51:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T19:51:24","slug":"live-with-helga-zepp-larouche-little-marco-threatens-europeans-we-will-preserve-the-empire-together-feb-18-11am-et-5pm-cet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/ru\/blog\/2026\/02\/17\/live-with-helga-zepp-larouche-little-marco-threatens-europeans-we-will-preserve-the-empire-together-feb-18-11am-et-5pm-cet\/","title":{"rendered":"Live with Helga Zepp-LaRouche: Little Marco Threatens Europeans: We will Preserve the Empire, TOGETHER, Feb. 18, 11am ET\/5pm CET"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Join Helga Zepp-LaRouche in her live dialogue and discuss the issues and solutions that move the world and its people. Send your questions &amp; comments to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:questions@schillerinstitute.org\">questions@schillerinstitute.org<\/a>.<\/em><br><em><strong>Please share the YouTube link with your friends, acquaintances, and colleagues to increase the reach of the solutions presented by the LaRouche movement.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Little Marco Threatens Europeans: We will Preserve the Empire, TOGETHER\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/D8MOmeknhJg?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\">The world strategic situation is defined by the various efforts to revitalize imperialism on the one hand, and on the other this dying system\u2019s conflict with the efforts of the Global South to establish a new, more just world system. This was the assessment of Helga Zepp-LaRouche during a discussion with associates on Feb. 16 following the dramatic developments of the past few days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Characteristic of the efforts to revitalize a naked imperialism were the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/eir.news\/2026\/02\/news\/rubio-defends-old-colonial-order-at-munich-conference\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">remarks<\/a>\u00a0by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who bemoaned the post-war contraction of \u201cthe great Western empires\u201d during his speech at the Munich Security Conference. Rubio laid out the cynical worldview that is increasingly coming to dominate the Trump administration: \u201cIn a perfect world, all of these problems and more would be solved by diplomats and strongly worded resolutions. But we do not live in a perfect world, and we cannot continue to allow those who blatantly and openly threaten our citizens and endanger our global stability to shield themselves behind abstractions of international law which they themselves routinely violate.\u201d You see, men are creatures that only understand brute force, Rubio asserts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of course, Rubio\u2019s remarks were also a not-so-veiled threat against Europe, whom Rubio addressed by saying, \u201cAmerica is charting the path for a new century of prosperity, and \u2026 we want to do it together with you.\u201d But rather than condemning Rubio\u2019s assertion that Western hegemonism must again dominate the world, he instead received a standing ovation by his European counterparts! Not only did European leaders trip over themselves in making ever-greater rearmament commitments for the alleged coming war with Russia, but a new discussion has broken out over the expansion of nuclear weapons across the continent. Polish President Karol Nawrocki has become the most recent one to announce this, when he said during a Feb. 15 interview: \u201cI\u2019m a great supporter of Poland joining the nuclear project\u2026. This path, with respect to all international regulations, is the path we should follow.\u201d Nawrocki\u2019s comments followed similar statements by Latvia, Finland, Sweden, and Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the same time, there was enormous disarray in Munich. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz explicitly said there is a rift between Europe and the United States, and that the rules-based order \u201cno longer exists.\u201d He also pounded the war drums against Russia, saying that defending Europe\u2019s freedom will require everyone to \u201cmake sacrifices.\u201d Similarly, U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer said that hard power is \u201cthe currency of the age,\u201d and therefore, \u201cwe must be ready to fight.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the backdrop of all this, however, is the continued rollout of the Epstein files. These files do not only incriminate the individuals who have been exposed\u2014which itself remains only a small fraction of the actual number who were involved\u2014but are an indictment of the entire imperial order which has tolerated this kind of thinking, as with Rubio\u2019s barbaric outlook. This point was made powerfully in a Feb. 13 op-ed by U.K. Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn. After criticizing Prime Minister Starmer\u2019s \u201cshameful, appalling\u201d decision to appoint Epstein-friend Peter Mandelson, Corbyn takes the scandal to a much higher level: All the other politicians lined up to replace Starmer \u201care likely to carry forward the abject political legacy he leaves behind. That includes the failure to redress the obscene levels of inequality in our society; the disgraceful attacks on the disabled; the disgusting anti-migrant hatred\u2026; and the ongoing military cooperation with Israel as it violates the sham ceasefire and continues its genocide against the Palestinian people.\u201d As&nbsp;<em>EIR<\/em>&nbsp;has repeatedly insisted, it\u2019s not Epstein that was the problem, but rather the entire system of which Epstein was merely a symptom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Epstein scandal is the death knell of the Western liberal system, Zepp-LaRouche noted further, \u201cbecause it has revealed the utmost immorality of what\u2019s behind colonialism and what\u2019s behind interventionist wars\u2014imperial wars of all sorts. And I think that is not going to go away. It is a symptom of a dying empire, and whatever the agony will be, how long it will stretch on, I do not think it can be reversed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Therefore, the fight for a new paradigm and a cultural renaissance has never been more important than it is today. \u201cBecause the real war is the war of culture and the image of man. Is man a beast? &#8230; Or is it the noble idea, of the human species as the only species gifted with creative reason, and capable of making beautiful compositions in classical music, building cathedrals, and writing poems? And that is the real battle of this whole thing\u2026. That is the most important answer we have to give to that, because otherwise people will just sink in despair and disgust, and then there will be no hope for humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The upcoming\u00a0<em>EIR<\/em>\u00a0Roundtable Conference on March 2, \u201cEpstein and the Bottomless Depravity of the \u2018Elites\u2019 \u2014Urgent Need for a Cultural Renaissance!,\u201d will be crucial in this regard.\u00a0<a href=\"\/?p=114754\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Register today<\/a>\u00a0and organize up a storm for it.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@SchillerInstitute\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join Helga Zepp-LaRouche in her live dialogue and discuss the issues and solutions that move the world and its people. Send your questions &amp; comments to\u00a0questions@schillerinstitute.org.Please share the YouTube link with your friends, acquaintances, and colleagues to increase the reach of the solutions presented by the LaRouche movement. 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