Helga Zepp-LaRouche today addressed an international conference of Spanish-speaking people from Europe and Ibero-America. Reviewing the existential crisis facing mankind as a whole, with the pandemic, the economic collapse, the financial bubble, and the mounting threat of war, even global thermonuclear war, she concluded:
“That’s why we have been thinking, where should the solution come from under these extraordinary circumstances? Can it come from protests, demonstrations? Obviously not. Can it come from the existing institutions — the G7, the G20? Well, that is very unlikely. My late husband Lyndon LaRouche had campaigned for many years for the idea that in order to defeat the powers that be, which are responsible for this crisis, this is the British Empire located in the City of London, and Wall Street, and naturally their collaborators around the world. In order to have a power against that which can change the agenda and establish a new system, you need the four most powerful nations of the world to unite — the United States, China, Russia, and hopefully India.
“Given the fact that you have right now rising tensions between the United States and China, where all kinds of reasons are being given. China supposedly wants to take over the world; China being responsible for the pandemic. In reality, it is the rise of China to become a leading power if not the leading power in the world, not actually threatening to replace the United States as a hegemon. But nevertheless, we are on the verge of a potential war between the two largest economies; the United States and China. This is why the question of where should the solution come from in these circumstances. I issued a call in the beginning of January of this year that it must be minimally the United States, Russia, and China to overcome geopolitics and establish common rules to meet the challenges which confront all of mankind.
“Now, the big mistake after the collapse of the Soviet Union, was that no effort was made to integrate Russia into such an international architecture, and naturally, the present threat to decouple China and the countries which are associated with China, from the present economic system, is absolutely detrimental to world peace, and it should be replaced by the idea that the future of humanity must be a new system of international relationships, where the sovereignty of every country is respected, the different social security system is respect, and countries are working together for the common aims of mankind, such as a crash program for the realization of fusion power, international cooperation in space, and to establish the common aims for the next hundred years of the human species.
“Now, I think the gravity of the crisis makes such a vision absolutely realizable. We want the five permanent powers of the UN Security Council to adopt, in principle, such an orientation. China has offered, repeatedly, as recently as a week ago, to the United States to cooperate on the fight against the pandemic; Russia has offered cooperation in the development of the distribution of the vaccines, and making sure the whole world has access to it in the quickest possible way; so there are these offers. And I think in order to realize this, making a complete break, a new paradigm, it needs a chorus of international voices who have to express their absolute desire and need to go in this direction.
“I think this is an absolute necessity, but I think it’s also absolutely realizable, because we are in a world revolution. The old system is absolutely not to be saved, or cannot be saved, and the whole question is, can humanity, in time, can we give ourselves an order which guarantees the long-term survivability of our species? And that is what I wanted to tell you, and where I’m asking you to cooperate.”
