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Lesson of a Christmas Past: Time for 'Peace on Earth, Good Will to Men'
by David Shavin (EIRNS) — Dec. 24, 2024
Will this Christmas season be the optimum time for the U.S. intelligence community to sabotage U.S.-Russian relations in the upcoming Trump administration? This is exactly what was done eight years ago. Let’s take a quick look at a Christmas past.
Around Christmas 2016, the intelligence community went into overdrive to sabotage the incoming Trump administration and the nation. Then President-elect Donald Trump had appointed Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn to be his National Security Advisor. On Dec. 22, 2016, Flynn asked the Russian Ambassador to Washington Sergey Kislyak to delay or defeat a UN Security Council resolution against Israel’s building of settlements in the West Bank (a request that Moscow turned down).
On Christmas morning, 2016, a tragic plane crash wiped out most of the famous Red Army chorus, who were on their way to Syria to perform for Russia’s troops, in their successful campaign to rollback ISIS. While Flynn extended a heartfelt condolence for the loss, the Obama administration maintained a cold-hearted silence, as they were neck-deep in their plan to break U.S.-Russian relations. Within days they peremptorily ordered 35 Russian diplomats, along with the families, to vacate within 72 hours. The allegation—known to be false—was that Russia had bugged the Democratic National Committee and was behind the exposure of the DNC’s rigging of the primaries for Hillary Clinton.
On December 29, the intelligence community was dismayed as they listened in on the Flynn-Kislyak discussion on Moscow not over-reacting to the provocation, so that relations would not be completely poisoned before Jan. 20. The next day, Russian President Putin said publicly that he would not “stoop” to “irresponsible diplomacy” but rather try to repair relations once Trump got into office. Trump immediately tweeted: “Great move on delay (by V. Putin)—I always knew he was very smart!” Trump would tell close associates that he knew some of the dirt behind the DNC narrative and Russiagate—yet he never cleaned out that “permanent war” gang in the intelligence community.
The world cannot afford for that tragic development to be replayed as farce.
Last month, Putin sent a clear message to Washington, with his Oreshnik hypersonic missile, that Russia has strategically outflanked the West; so, any remaining fantasies about everyone bowing down to London and Washington should be put aside. However, the war party has assiduously tried to not even acknowledge any message at all. It’s as if it were a $36 trillion national debt, or a $2,000 trillion ($2 quadrillion) financial derivatives bubble.
With the 2016 war-party with such a state of mind, and a track record of being more cold-hearted than the Grinch that stole Christmas, still haunting the Earth, it is no time to let down one’s guard.
Luke 2:14 has the timely concept, “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.” How does that work? By the grace of God, the world has been created with a certain miracle—that mankind participates in some reflected fashion in the transformative, creative power that created the universe. It was by an act of good will—a loving act—that mankind has the power imparted by God’s good will. Mankind can uniquely conform more closely to that creative process and order its actions accordingly, making real scientific discoveries and transformations in production. In this way, development is the name for peace.
It is an embarrassment for the West that, in 2013, China and President Xi Jinping launched the very “American” policy of ending empires, building a middle class, and rolling back poverty and disease. A Westerner with a profound grasp of the theological and Renaissance roots of the anti-colonial “American System,” Lyndon LaRouche, had promulgated such an approach. But China’s poverty-elimination campaign, pulling 800 million Chinese out of a deep poverty, was offered to the world as their “Belt and Road” (BRI) approach. Now, the cat is out of the bag, and a global majority in the South and the East have a taste of what is possible. It may be embarrassing, but there’s a solid future for the West; there’s a wide-open possibility this time for the recurrent disease of “empire” not to be fatal for the West.
Yesterday, China’s government-linked Global Times featured the rail-building spine of the BRI in their “BRI Development Vital in Improving Global Connectivity Landscape” presentation. It opens: “With steady advancement in construction and planning for the railway network spanning Southeast Asia and Eurasia, infrastructure efforts aimed at reshaping global connectivity are set to inject new vitality into the development, stability and peace of both the region and the world at large.” It is not a matter of a boondoggle for, e.g., engineers and steel manufacturers. At core, it is a matter of linking up the various talents of mankind and reaping the benefits.
Because peace on earth would be helpful to make it to January 20, begin with this message to Congress to “Stop NATO Driving Us to Nuclear War.” To work on that “good will toward men” matter, it is time to spread Christmas joy with the LaRouche World Land-Bridge. And because beauty can aid us poor humans to fight for truth, a Christmas concert is just what the doctor ordered.
Contents
Strategic War Danger
- Austrian Colonel’s Answer to Oreshnik Is To Send U.S. Anti-Missile System to Ukraine (↓)
- U.S. Intel Claims Sending Troops to Russia Was North Korea's Idea (↓)
- Ukraine Now Offers 'Hard Evidence' on a Dead North Korean Soldier (↓)
- Hungary's Orban Tries To Pop Brussels' 'Self-Created Bubble'—Diplomacy, Not Delusions (↓)
- Moscow: Diplomacy or Military Victory (↓)
Collapsing Imperial System
- Ukraine Attacks Neighbor Slovakia for 'Neville Chamberlain' Appeasement of Russia (↓)
- China’s ‘Panama’ Advice for U.S.: Drop the Arrogance, Build Infrastructure (↓)
New World Paradigm
- Eurasian Economic Union Meets To Further Integration and Development (↓)
- China-Nepal Plan To Build Railway Through the ‘Roof of the World’ (↓)
- Global Times Presents the Explosion of Ongoing BRI Rail-Building That Imparts Development to the Globe (↓)
Harley Schlanger Update
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