Long-term LaRouche movement organizer Douglas Mallouk wrote the following Letter to the Editor to his local {Baltimore Sun today, which he released as a letter to any daily’s editorial board.}
To the Editor:
For the upcoming Trump-Putin summit in Alaska to successfully move the planet away from its current hyper-dangerous trajectory toward global economic-bloc warfare and even nuclear catastrophe, two things urgently need to happen.
First, the Trans-Atlantic War Party’s sabotage campaign must be decisively rejected! The Usual Suspects among the pundits and politicians will undoubtedly greet any potential substantive development from the event by yammering that Putin is playing Trump, that the President is a Kremlin puppet, etc. ad nauseam. Translation: They’re terrified that Trump, with all his flaws, might not be THEIR puppet, and could even break with the lying narratives that brought about the successive disasters of Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and the current proxy wars in Ukraine and Gaza. In the upside-down neocon-neolib worldview, only a Moscow stooge could possibly object to endless conflicts that cost millions of lives and trillions of dollars, all while accomplishing no discernible good anywhere. Heed them not!
However, durable peace requires more. The former Russian territory of Alaska represents a perfect setting to revive an idea championed by such diverse figures as Lincoln’s Secretary of State William Seward, President William McKinley, 1960s and 1990s Alaska Governor Wally Hickel, and, today, Helga Zepp-LaRouche’s Schiller Institute: Build a rail tunnel across the Bering Strait—the first-ever land connection between Earth’s Eastern and Western Hemispheres!
Far more than just a transportation avenue, the project could totally transform world trade patterns. Moreover, it would exponentially expand scientific-economic activity in the new frontier of the Arctic North. Perhaps most importantly, the very act of joint construction would sharply shift the adversarial U.S.-Russia mindset that presently threatens humankind with extinction.
No, this initiative won’t automatically resolve impasses like Ukraine or arms control. But it certainly will create a different context for negotiations!
Again, count on the naysayers to immediately pronounce the whole thing utopian or infeasible, despite serious studies attesting to the contrary. And they will scream about the cost.
Certainly, the initial outlay would be steep indeed. But the whole point (here as elsewhere) is that development, done properly, pays for itself many times over by driving whole new branches of human enterprise, as we saw with the 1960s Apollo Moon mission. No accountant could have foreseen that outcome, either.
Besides, just what would it “cost” to fight World War III? It could un-balance the whole national budget!
Sincerely, Doug Mallouk
