You can describe the international conference in Berlin July 12-13, “Man Is Not a Wolf to Man; For a New Paradigm in International Relations,” as a “panorama” in many respects. There was geographic and cultural diversity, a range of degrees of optimism and pessimism, a range of specialties from physics to farming to diplomacy, young and old, and much more. The event was co-sponsored by the Schiller institute, the Academy of Geopolitics of Paris, and by the East German Board of Trustees of Associations. But throughout all the diversity there was unity in commitment to seek a better way for the world.
Helga Zepp-LaRouche, leader of the Schiller Institute, who used the “panorama” concept to describe the panels, nevertheless today summed up the unified impact of the conference. She said, “There is another way,” for the world ahead, than the extreme danger of all-out war, and the genocide taking place.
Our task, Zepp-LaRouche challenged, is to “Get the Western countries away from the idea they have to ruin Russia, China, and the BRICS to maintain their position” in the world.
A contribution to this came the very next day after the conference, with a seminar in Berlin July 14, with the focus on development in Africa, and how Europe and China can collaborate with African nations, to the benefit of all. A draft program was discussed, with many contributions toward a near-future report, to intervene worldwide in this effort. The priority projects include water management, continental electrification, industrialization, agriculture productivity, modern medicine, and more.
This initiative comes amidst extreme danger from the World War Party and its various branches. “Dmitry Trenin: World War II Has Already Begun,” is the headline on an article in RT today by Russian veteran analyst Trenin, who also spoke on July 12 in the opening panel of the Berlin conference. Trenin points out the grim reality: “Many now speak of humanity’s drift towards World War III, imagining events similar to those of the 20th century. But war evolves. It will not begin with a June 1941 Barbarossa-style invasion or a Cuban Missile Crisis-style nuclear stand-off. In fact, the new world war is already underway—it’s just that not everyone has recognized it yet….”
We see the latest belligerent move by President Trump yesterday at the White House with the Secretary General of NATO Mark Rutte, threatening Russia with a 50-day deadline to reach “a deal” over Ukraine, or there will be U.S. sanctions on Russia and its trading partners. All the while, the U.S. made new commitments to channel more weapons to Ukraine. Trump is clearly caught up in the Permanent Bureaucracy’s deadly narrative that “more pressure will get results.”
An additional element of “more pressure” for more conflict between the U.S. and Russia, came today from the London Financial Times and the Washington Post. They stirred things up with the revelation that Trump had asked Ukraine’s Acting President Zelenskyy on a July 4 phone call, about why he wasn’t striking deep into Russia—hitting Moscow and St. Petersburg. White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt has since tried to talk this revelation down, by saying to other media that Trump was simply questioning Zelenskyy, not advocating deep strikes.
These are just the most recent updates showing how diplomacy itself is being abandoned by the West, replaced by narratives, pressure, and duplicity. Don’t be surprised, therefore, if a precision military response comes back in return. Recall the straight talk from China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi to EU foreign affairs representative Kaja Kallas in early July. He told her that Beijing knows that China would be the next target for the West, should Russia be defeated in Ukraine. He reaffirmed to her that China is not supplying Russia with financial or military aid, but China sees the situation.
In opposition to the Western madness, the ties of diplomacy and mutual development are growing stronger in the Global South and East, as seen in the gathering of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, whose foreign ministers are meeting in Tianjin today and tomorrow. This morning Chinese President Xi Jinping welcomed the officials, and met later today with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. Their discussion included preparations for the visit to China by Russian President Vladimir Putin for the commemorative activities centered on Sept. 3, to mark the 80th anniversary of the Victory of the Chinese People’s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War.
Join with the Schiller Institute in taking forward the spirit of the two conferences just held over the past two months, for political discourse and intervention to put a new architecture for development and security on the world agenda.
