Without a vision to strive for, there can be no future. What is the vision that animates those creating conditions for extreme chaos in the world?
Mike Pompeo’s stunt on Thursday at the United Nations — where he submitted letters to the UN Secretary-General and the current President of the Security Council, demanding a restoration of sanctions against Iran — is quite plainly aimed not at garnering support for the U.S. position, but at causing a crisis of the UN Security Council (UNSC) itself. The total absence of support was seen in the recent UNSC resolution submitted by the U.S., calling for sanctions on Iran, which received a single vote of support — from the Dominican Republic — vetoes from Russia and China, and abstentions from every other nation. Iranian lawmakers have introduced legislation to withdraw from the nuclear deal in the case of such a snapback of sanctions.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov explained it this way: that the call for a resumption of sanctions “will produce no result anyway, but it might eventually lead to a very serious scandal and a rift within the UN Security Council, and, in the final analysis, undermine its authority.” How? What happens in 30 days, when, according to Pompeo, the sanctions against Iran are to be restarted, absent a UNSC resolution to the contrary (a resolution the U.S. would veto)? Who will be in a position to decide on the merits of the U.S. position? This is like a constitutional crisis without a Supreme Court. Lavrov stressed that this is part of a string of actions that replace “international law” with the (British-supported) conception of a “rule-based order.”
Recall that Trump had declined to launch an airstrike on Iran, citing the number of deaths that the operation would cause. This displeased Sir Kim Darroch — British Ambassador to the U.S. and coordinator of Trump-whisperers — who wrote in a memo to London: “[Trump’s] claim, however, that he changed his mind because of 150 predicted casualties doesn’t stand up; he would certainly have heard this figure in his initial briefing. It’s more likely that he was never fully on board and that he was worried about how this apparent reversal of his 2016 campaign promises would look come 2020 [at the next election].” Putting his thinking cap on, Sir Kim thought through what could change the outcome: “Just one more Iranian attack somewhere in the region could trigger yet another Trump U-turn. Moreover, the loss of a single American life would probably make a critical difference.” Half a year after Sir Kim left Washington, D.C. in disgrace, Iranian Gen. Qasem Soleimani was killed by a U.S. drone while undertaking a diplomatic mission in Iraq. The reason? Trump: “Soleimani was plotting imminent and sinister attacks on American diplomats and military personnel.” His death was justified as supposedly preventing precisely the scenario Sir Kim had visualized.
It was in the immediate aftermath of Soleimani’s killing that Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche called for an emergency summit between the United States, Russia, China, and India, to prevent the escalation of conflict and to address the causes of the strategic instability engulfing the world — British finance and geopolitics. Russian President Vladimir Putin has since called for a summit of the leaders of the five permanent members of the UNSC, precisely the world leadership body presently threatened by Pompeo’s destructive actions. All five leaders have agreed in principle to such a summit, and the September UN General Assembly meeting provides an excellent, and now timely, opportunity.
A glance at the U.S. domestic situation reveals an ongoing coup by intelligence agencies (foreign and domestic) against the elected President, a senile opponent whose acceptance speech included repeated, creepy references to a battle between “light” and “darkness,” war-like situations that are essentially terrorist training in Portland and other areas, and a Secretary of State, Pompeo, who is himself running a coup against Trump: both by his blocking former NSA Technical Director Bill Binney’s evidence that the inciting premise of Russiagate was a complete hoax, and by his acting in opposition to Trump’s campaign promises to build good relationships with other countries, with which the U.S. could usefully engage in productive economic activity — a coup against Trump’s potential, and his expressed intentions.
A comprehensive discussion of the extreme perils the world presently faces, and the beautiful future that could be ours — a future of economic development, scientific breakthroughs, and space exploration — will unfold over the weekend of September 5-6, sponsored by the Schiller Institute.
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