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A Transition from Madness to Reason

by Dennis Speed (EIRNS) — Nov. 20, 2024

The “collective Biden’s” decision to publicly begin war with Russia, without the approval of the U.S. Congress, or consultation with the new President-elect, brought forth the following response from Ohio former Congressman Dennis Kucinich, who is running for Congress as an independent this year.

”Biden has made a decision to insert the U.S. into an unambiguous, escalatory phase, using the territory of Ukraine to attack Russia directly with missiles which can reach 190 miles deep. This is an illegal act by the President which puts our nation on a path to war with Russia.

“The American people voted for Trump to end the wars. Biden apparently wants to end the world. Trump is listening to the American people. Biden is listening to NATO’s malignant agenda.

“Trump has put America’s interests for peace and prosperity first.

“No President has the right to use unilateral executive authority to permit a U.S. missile strike against another nation. It invites a retaliatory attack. It is an impeachable offense.”

Let us note, also, what Vladimir Putin on September 12 said regarding his view whether Ukraine, or NATO, is responsible for the deployment of ATACMS or other such long-range missiles systems: “These weapons are impossible to employ without intelligence data from satellites which Ukraine does not have. This can only be done using the European Union’s satellites, or U.S. satellites—in general, NATO satellites. This is the first point.

“The second point—perhaps the most important, the key point, even—is that only NATO military personnel can assign flight missions to these missile systems. Ukrainian servicemen cannot do this.”

So, Russia does not view this, in any way, as “the Ukrainians getting permission to launch long-range missiles into Russia.” Russia views this as, well, what it is. NATO is now publicly engaged in the very war against Russia that NATO claimed it was avoiding, by funding and arming Ukraine. This is very serious indeed.

It is well known to all competent observers, that the use of the ATACMS cannot change the outcome of the war in Ukraine, which is lost, and has been lost for some time. And we should recall that on September 17, former Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., together with Donald Trump, Jr., penned an op-ed—"Negotiate with Moscow To End the Ukraine War and Prevent Nuclear Devastation.” “The New York Times reported Thursday that the Biden administration is considering allowing Ukraine to use NATO-provided long-range precision weapons against targets deep inside Russia,” they began. “Such a decision would put the world at greater risk of nuclear conflagration than at any time since the Cuban missile crisis.” On November 17, Donald Trump, Jr. tweeted, “The Military Industrial Complex seems to want to make sure they get World War 3 going before my father has a chance to create peace and save lives.”

But we should also note that the new NATO missile directive may also be politically deployed, as a way to begin to escalate world-class conflict in Asia and the Pacific. There has been a lame, but persistent, assertion that the deployment of “11,000 or 15,000 North Korean troops” was another element of the war escalation involved in this “collective Biden"/NATO “Götterdämmerung” exploit, to both involve and provoke South Korea, and implicitly China. Ukraine’s Ambassador to Seoul Dmytro Ponomarenko claimed that North Korea has established a command-and-control node in Kursk, run by seven generals, and that as many as 100,000 North Korean troops could be rotated through Donetsk in short order. He proposes that South Korea join in the doomed Ukrainian fray with weapons and troops. This, even as President Xi Jinping has just met with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol on Nov. 15 at the APEC summit in Peru, and as China, Japan and South Korea begin to attempt to forge a working relationship.

A higher-order conception must be introduced to govern world leaders and their actions, and quickly. While the media call attention to Vladimir Putin’s having signed into law the policy he had enunciated on September 25 regarding the new Russian doctrine on the deployment of nuclear weapons, Executive Intelligence Review and the Schiller Institute is calling attention to another set of remarks recently made by Putin at the Valdai Discussion Club annual conference:

“The rise of nations and cultures that have previously remained on the periphery of global politics for one reason or another means that their own distinct ideas of law and justice are playing an increasingly important role,” Putin said. “They are diverse. This may give the impression of discord and perhaps cacophony, but this is only the initial phase. It is my deep conviction that the only new international system possible is one embracing polyphony, where many tones and many musical themes are sounded together to form harmony. If you like, we are moving towards a world system that is going to be polyphonic rather than polycentric, one in which all voices are heard and, most importantly, absolutely must be heard.” Place these remarks of Putin in the context of Abraham Lincoln’s famous concluding remarks of his First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861. “The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.” Finally, consider President John F. Kennedy’s remarks, less than a month after the Cuban Missiles Crisis, said, in his November 29, 1962 address dedicating the National Cultural Center, now known as the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts:

“Genius can speak at any time, and the entire world will hear it and listen. Behind the storm of daily conflict and crisis, the dramatic confrontations, the tumult of political struggle, the poet, the artist, the musician, continues the quiet work of centuries, building bridges of experience between peoples, reminding man of the universality of his feelings and desires and despairs, and reminding him that the forces that unite are deeper than those that divide.

“Thus, art and the encouragement of art is political in the most profound sense, not as a weapon in the struggle, but as an instrument of understanding of the futility of struggle between those who share man’s faith.”

These reflect the characteristic conceptions of statecraft that must inform the thinking of the American citizen, the American Presidency, and of world leadership. These are the characteristic conceptions that will be discussed at the December 7-8 Schiller Institute International Conference, “In the Spirit of Schiller and Beethoven, All Men Become Brethren.” We recommend the Ten Principles for a New International Security and Development Architecture as essential preparation for the conference, and the subsequent actions that we, its participants, will undertake.

Contents

Strategic War Danger

• Russia Charges Ukraine Used ATACMS in Strike on Bryansk Province (↓)
• Putin Signs Russia’s Amended Nuclear Doctrine (↓)
• Russian War Production Outstrips Europe’s by 4 to 1 (↓)
• U.K. Military-Intelligence Plan for War on Russia Leaked by Grayzone (↓)
• Norway Asks ICJ for Opinion on Israel, in Order To Defend UNRWA (↓)

Strategic War Danger

• Italy Insists, No to Missiles vs Russia, Yes to a Peace Conference with Russia (↓)
• China Responds to U.S.-Philippine Security Agreement (↓)

New World Paradigm

• Presidents of China and South Korea Held Meeting in Peru (↓)
• Massive Russian-China Gas Pipeline Completed (↓)
• China Has Shaped the G20 To Focus on Development (↓)
• Kucinich Argues, Biden's Missile Crisis Is Illegally Leading to War (↓)

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