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Florence, or Venice? Humanity’s Next Hundred Days

by Dennis Speed (EIRNS) — Jan. 21, 2025

We have entered, as of Monday, January 20, a new, higher manifold of current history. Three world leaders, Presidents Donald Trump, Xi Jinping, and Vladimir Putin, will meet—not together, but President Trump intends to meet with each of the two, probably in the next 100 days. Presidents Xi and Putin have met together 42 times in the past decade, and perhaps they will also meet together within that same time frame. On Tuesday, Jan. 21, Xi and Putin spoke on a video conference about how the war in Ukraine might be ended, about Russia’s support for China’s position on Taiwan, and about President Trump’s call to President Xi this past Jan. 17, according to Reuters and other press reports.

If you have fixed views of the world, prepare to abandon that “ship of fools.” The soon-to-be-manifest developments on the world stage will pale in comparison to the potential for more far-reaching, and even astounding changes that could be caused, should an active trans-Atlantic citizenry get emotionally and intellectually involved with this unique moment. Though, perhaps, obvious for those who are not intellectually handcuffed by the ideology of geopolitics, the actual dynamic nature of this higher manifold can be not only understood, but can also be accessed and directed.

Temporarily, at least, the apparent “laws” of the geopolitical universe have been suspended. The silly divisions of “left” and “right,” are not functioning. The facts, as you learned them, will not add up. You—the American people, citizens of Europe, victims of the Anglosphere and its dying imperial culture—are in need of human intelligence, and it is Lyndon LaRouche’s Executive Intelligence Review that can provide that. In order to understand these three leaders—Presidents Donald Trump, Xi Jinping, and Vladimir Putin, two of whom have been targets of assassination in recent months and years—and the promise (and threat) that they pose, in its actual historical context, it is useful to consider these wise words of Lyndon LaRouche:

“The currently ending 500-year cycle in European history, which came to the

surface during the Fifteenth century, has been determined by the emerging conflict between the two leading forces within European culture during that century. On the one side, there were the forces of the Golden Renaissance, centered around such figures as Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa and the 1439-40 Council of Florence. On the opposing side, was the re-emerging power of the Venice-centered European aristocratic and financier oligarchy. … All European history since the Fifteenth century within Europe and globally, has been dominated by the cultural conflict between the radiated influence of the Renaissance and the opposing, Venice-launched force of the so-called ‘Enlightenment.’”

The “Council of Florence” to which LaRouche refers, occurred in the year 1439, and was organized by Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa. Cusa sought to unify the Eastern and Western Christian churches through an heroic act of diplomacy. In Cusa’s book, De Docta Ignorantia (On Learned Ignorance) and other writings, he discussed the idea of the “Coincidentia Oppositorum”—the “coincidence of opposites”—that for every insoluble, intractable problem of thought, there is a higher manifold, a “mountain-top,” from which the problem can be viewed, and ultimately solved. (The best, short example of how to think about how to do this, is Helga Zepp-LaRouche’s “Ten Principles for a New International Security and Development Architecture

The Venetians, through deception, lies, and personal corruption, divided and ruled, largely through the influence of their globally-extended intelligence collecting and manipulation. That has been the historical method of British intelligence, later adopted by corrupted and treasonous elements of the American intelligence community. As Mike Pompeo said to a group of students at Texas A&M University, April 15, 2019, “What’s the cadet motto at West Point? You will not lie, cheat, or steal, or tolerate those who do. I was the CIA director. We lied, we cheated, we stole….”

If the American people are mobilized to ensure the successful nominations of Tulsi Gabbard and Kash Patel to the positions of Director of National Intelligence, and Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation; to secure the release of all the files pertaining to the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, and Robert F. Kennedy; and to ensure the release of the ultra-secret file on the attempted assassination and incarceration of Lyndon LaRouche for his work on the Strategic Defense Initiative—then the collaboration that the world needs from Trump, Xi, Putin and several other world leaders can proceed. That chance for collaboration, however, will almost certainly fail, unless that condition is met.

Why do you, therefore, require to read and subscribe to Executive Intelligence Review, the human intelligence service? EIR respects the intellectual potential of its readers. An example: Probably the most important development that occurred in the world in the last days was the achievement by the Chinese fusion power program, the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), which successfully sustained, for almost 18 minutes, the high-temperature thermonuclear reaction that is fusion, a reaction that burns hotter than the surface, and even core temperature of the Sun. The fusion reaction was sustained in the laboratory for 1,066 seconds, vastly outdistancing last year’s record of 403 seconds. The reaction was sustained at a temperature of over 100 million degrees Celsius, or 180 million degrees Fahrenheit. (The core temperature of the Sun is 15 million degrees Celsius, or 27 million degrees Fahrenheit.) That means successfully harnessing a fire more than six times hotter than the Sun’s core, for 18 minutes. “The ultimate goal of an artificial sun is to create nuclear fusion like the Sun, providing humanity with an endless, clean energy source, and enabling space exploration beyond the solar system,” said the statement from the State Council Information Office of China.

Isn’t that something that America, that Europe should be doing? Shouldn’t we get in on that? Shouldn’t we demand that President Trump ask President Xi Jinping about their fusion program? Shouldn’t the United States, Russia, China, India, Japan, Brazil, convene a world conference to discuss, not what Trump just called “the Green New Scam,” but an Apollo-style international crash program for thermonuclear fusion, in the spirit of what JFK said in his June 10, 1963 American University speech and his September 20, 1963 United Nations speech? Shouldn’t that be a goal that the American people embrace as they prepare to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the birth of this country at Independence Hall, in July of 1776?

That is the role of a human intelligence service. “Tell the people what they need to know, and they will figure out how to do what must be done.” The Trump Administration, through the Gabbard, Patel, and other appointments, and its release of the truth through its release of the files and the true history that belongs to the American people, should end the rule of inhuman intelligence, replacing it with the human intelligence that Lyndon LaRouche’s EIR both produces and represents.

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