“In Flanders fields, the poppies blow/ between the crosses, row on row,/ That mark our place; and in the sky/ The larks, still bravely singing, fly,/ Scarce heard amid the guns below...” An unending sea of flowers, one for each killed on all the world’s battlefields, in wars that need never have been fought. This Remembrance Day, as today is known throughout the world, also called Veterans Day in some nations on Nov. 11, is the best time to commit ourselves, and our nations, to the immediate ending of conflicts that, in a thermonuclear age, hold the entire world hostage—starting with NATO vs. Russia, and Israel vs. “the world,” i.e., Palestine/Lebanon/Syria/Iran and others.
Notably, there seems to be real worry, at least among the ghouls of war, that war is about to be devalued. “Have you ever seen a person who is afraid that the war will end? I saw him, and his name is Volodymyr Zelenskyy, “ said Slovakia’s Prime Minister and assassination survivor Robert Fico, in a radio interview. This was his eyewitness assessment of Zelenskyy’s state of mind, at the November 7 Budapest EU Summit, which Fico attended.
Will the ghouls of war, and the war party, continue to rule America? Yesterday, President-elect Donald Trump posted on his social media: “I will not be inviting former Ambassador Nikki Haley, or former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, to join the Trump Administration, which is currently in formation. I very much enjoyed and appreciated working with them previously, and would like to thank them for their service to our Country. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
With regard to the war in Ukraine, Russia, while congratulating Trump on his election victory, continues to make its demands clear. In an RT article with the ominous title, “Moscow Reiterates Threat To Sever Diplomatic Ties with U.S.,” Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov was quoted as reiterating his earlier remarks. “This past June, Ryabkov warned that Washington’s increasingly hawkish posture toward Russia was making any diplomatic contacts practically ‘impossible.’ When asked to clarify this position, he told Izvestia that while there was no scenario that would make Russia ‘automatically’ cut ties with the West, but that this option is ‘undoubtedly’ on the table…. When asked what U.S. actions could make Russia further downgrade ties, he mentioned U.S. attempts to confiscate Russia’s frozen assets, as well as ‘dramatic and further escalatory actions leading to a worsening of the situation on the contact line’ in Ukraine. Ryabkov noted that there are a ‘number of plots that the West continues to discuss’ that could escalate the conflict. For instance, Kiev has for months been pushing the U.S. and its allies to lift a ban on strikes deep inside Russia with Western-supplied long-range weapons.”
It will be essential that our organizational voice be lifted and placed in the hour-to-hour international discussion, public and private, about who should not be, and what policies must not continue to be followed, in the 2025-29 Trump Administration. Beyond that, however, we require that a clear and widely-circulated statement as to what must be done to “save the Western alliance”—minus NATO, that is—be issued immediately. Today, on poet Friedrich Schiller’s birthday, Schiller Institute founder and head Helga Zepp-LaRouche demonstrated why the Martin Luther King “mountaintop” approach of her Ten Principles for a New Security and Development Architecture provides the necessary standpoint from which to see, and then propose, a strategic flank outside of the dead-end realm of geopolitics. In a discussion with her associates, Zepp-LaRouche proposed a specific tactical-strategic flank, equally applicable to NATO nations and the Global South, to both the United States and Europe, that would not only end war and save countless lives, but would also provide the basis for real diplomacy, by using the most seemingly difficult problem facing the trans-Atlantic world, at the moment, as the very engine of that proposal.
Zepp-LaRouche started by describing the situation of Germany, which, she contended, is now getting rid of the worst government it has had since 1945. She said, it’s very good that this government is out, but the problem is, what can come next? The CDU, the only party that has more than 30% support, if they won, would bring to power as the new Chancellor Friedrich Merz, who was the former European chief of BlackRock. He and Christian Lindner of the Free Democratic Party, the finance minister who was just sacked by Scholz, both say that Germany’s Taurus missiles should be sent immediately to Ukraine! And that converges with the efforts of the British, along with certain factions in the United States, around Biden, who want to do the same thing. They want to deliver all the weapons systems they can to Ukraine, in the shortest amount of time, before Trump comes in. So, even if you had a new government, that would be the CDU plus FDP, or the CDU plus the Greens, which would be even more pro-war, and therefore worse, than what is there now.
There are other forces, including electoral forces, in Germany right now that oppose this, but there is no real proposal for what to do. There’s a wide-open field right now; there are many people that are totally in an uproar, and correctly so, warning that if Trump comes in, maybe he will end the Ukraine war, but he could also dump the entire Ukraine reconstruction cost on Germany. Then, put this together with other factors, such as tariffs. Many people suspect that the Trump policy of making America great again could be very expensive, even devastating, for the European economies. You have steel, chemical, auto, all going bankrupt.
Therefore, in that context, we will produce a study with the idea that we have to look at what the BRICS nations are doing. If Europe, right now, would cooperate with the BRICS, helping to create 2 to 3 billion new productive jobs in Asia, Africa, and South America, that would, on the one side, create a tremendous incentive for would-be refugees to stay home, and reconstruct their countries, and, on the other side, stabilize and reinvigorate the European economies, and the U.S. economy, for that matter, as well. We need such a package to be put together extremely quickly; we may have to do some upgrading and updating of earlier projects and proposals that we’ve discussed, but we have to use this for the most massive outreach ever, in building our Schiller conference over December 7-8. Everybody is talking right now about the BRICS, but we are by far the ones with the best historic sense of what that means, and we have the contacts by means of which to put together a new system.
In America, it will require the suppression of Lyndon LaRouche’s role, on both the national security side as well as the economic development side, to finally be lifted. There may be basis to do this in the new environment in America: In March of 2023, when then Presidential candidate Donald Trump made a ten-point statement outlining his proposal for how to “dismantle the deep state,” point four of his proposal was: “fourth, to expose the hoaxes and abuses of power that have been tearing our country apart, we will establish a Truth and Reconciliation commission to declassify and publish all documents on deep state, spying, censorship, and corruption, and there are plenty of them.…”
Today, this Remembrance Day, when all veterans of wars and their sacrifices are recalled, we pledge that Lyndon LaRouche, veteran of World War Two and of many battles thereafter, and the America he exemplified, shall be recalled to the office of the Presidency, as he conceived it, and as the world requires.
