Warmonger and Russophobe John Bolton took to the pages of the Washington Examiner on Monday, August 25, to rip into President Trump’s efforts to bring the Russia-Ukraine proxy war to an end. Bolton was Trump’s National Security Advisor during Trump’s first term, and memorably intervened to make sure the talks with North Korea were sandbagged by threatening Kim Jung Un with the “Libya model.” (Libya’s Qaddafi had renounced the development of nuclear weapons only to be brutally overthrown and murdered later.)
Bolton wrote: “President Donald Trump’s Ukraine policy is no more coherent today than it was last Friday when his administration executed search warrants against my home and office. Collapsing in confusion, haste, and the absence of any discernible meeting of the minds among Ukraine, Russia, several European countries, and America, Trump’s negotiations may be in their last throes, along with his Nobel Peace Prize campaign. “
Particularly revealing was Bolton’s complaint that the Trump-Putin talks moved ahead at a “dizzying pace,” without the usual groundwork done by lower-level officials. Ukraine special envoy Keith Kellogg has just demonstrated how right Trump was in not letting him call the shots—Kellogg accepted from Zelenskyy’s hand the “Order of Merit Award” while visiting Kiev on Ukraine’s national day. Imagine the outcry if President Trump were to accept such an honor from Russian President Putin in the midst of trying to end the conflict as a “mediator”! Kellogg should be fired for this lapse of judgment, which also reveals his loyalties.
Similarly hysterical is a piece by Russian-born Washington Post writer and Council on Foreign Relations member Max Boot, entitled, “Gabbard Intelligence Purge Gambles with U.S. Security” with the kicker, “Tulsi Gabbard undermines U.S. security with moves tantamount to politicized intelligence firings,” which argues that many “qualified” intelligence operatives have been fired, leaving the United States at risk. (Risking nuclear war is apparently preferable, according to Boot.)
The freakouts from nasty people indicate that the Alaska Summit process and Russiagate investigation are moving in the right direction. This is probably why King Charles has summoned President Trump and the First Lady to the U.K. for a state visit in September.
The positive direction of diplomacy between the United States and Russia creates an irresolvable dissonance with the continued support for Israel’s ongoing genocidal campaign to starve and remove every last Palestinian from the Gaza Strip, while annexing the West Bank as well.
The reason such a contradiction is possible, is not merely because President Trump has been blackmailed by Netanyahu, which may or may not be true, but because the United States and the European nations have lost any sense of their actual historical contributions to the progress of mankind.
American children are not steeped in the writings of Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, and Lyndon LaRouche, and European children don’t study Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Toscanelli, or Carnot.
Young people in Russia and China are encouraged by their leaders to prepare for a new era of space exploration and the development of controlled thermonuclear fusion for abundant and affordable energy for the world.
Americans are told to get rich on crypto currency, and not to worry if you can’t afford food and your children are on drugs—the “illegals” did that to you—while the Europeans are told that they’ll have to make sacrifices to prepare for the inevitable war against Russia.
As Helga Zepp-LaRouche stressed in her Aug. 25 interview with Global Times, the leaders of the West need to commit themselves to revive the “cultural treasures” of their own nations, as many Asian countries are doing, which gives them confidence to have an “optimistic outlook for the future.”
It is very likely that President Donald Trump, like the trumpet in poet Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “Defense of Poetry,” is unconscious of the extraordinary potential unleashed by his performance with his Russian counterpart at the Alaska Summit. That is for more poetical leaders like Helga Zepp-LaRouche to bring to the world. The upcoming meetings of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in China, the Vladivostok Eastern Economic Forum, and the September 3 Beijing Observance of the 80th anniversary of the defeat of militarist Japan will each contribute to moving mankind into the new paradigm which is unfolding simultaneously with the ugly, satanic crimes of the dying imperial system.
We in the United States and Western Europe must act to remind our compatriots of our more noble traditions, and strive to fulfill the dedication of our geniuses gone before.
