The Lead
Heavy Ideas, Not Deals, Will Change Current History
by Dennis Speed (EIRNS) — Oct. 13, 2025
The palpable meltdown of the once-formidable Atlanticist elites, on display in lurid technicolor in the collapsing French and British “governments,” and the somewhat more slowly decomposing Germany, is taking on larger and larger tragic—and sometimes tragicomic—proportions. It seems that the “elite” can no longer muster even a sense of self-conscious embarrassment at their own ineptitude, let alone a comprehension of “how we have shrunk.” In the face of momentous changes in Southwest Asia, as well as in the military theater in Ukraine, the real-world convulsions now underway have blasted away the pretentious notions of geopolitics employed by the late Henry Kissinger in service to the British Empire, a matter which he infamously discussed on May 10, 1982 at London’s Chatham House. U.S. President Donald Trump’s Sept. 16-18, 2025 visit with King Charles III was a tragicomic reminder that statecraft is composed of “heavy ideas,” and not of deals with His/Her Satanic Majesty.
How important is it to understand the “heavy ideas” of world statecraft? When Russian President Vladimir Putin put forward at the Oct. 2 Valdai Club meeting, the policy formulations such as “What is needed here is a philosophy of complexity—something akin to quantum mechanics, which is wiser and, in some ways, more complex than classical physics…. After all, linear unilateral solutions are impossible, while nonlinear and multilateral solutions require very serious, professional, impartial, creative, and at times unconventional diplomacy,” was any of that grasped anywhere in Washington, Paris, or London?
How important is “grasping heavy ideas” to the day-to-day survival of you and your family, as well as the planet’s posterity? Consider this Oct. 12 statement from Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov. Peskov referred to Ukraine’s potential launching of U.S. Tomahawk missiles against Russia—a missile that would require United States assistance to successfully deploy: “Just imagine: a long-range missile is launched and is flying and we know that it could be nuclear. What should the Russian Federation think? Just how should Russia react? Military experts overseas should understand this.” And so should you.
Nuclear weapons expert Ted Postol spoke at a Schiller Institute conference on Oct. 10 in Berlin and pointed out that “You don’t have a choice once you’re in this game. You can’t say, ‘let’s stop.’ Because you don’t know (that) the adversary isn’t going to escalate before you stop.” Postol asserted that once one nuclear warhead were deployed, no matter how “tactically,” anywhere in the world, within five days things will escalate in such a way, that within a week most human life on the planet will be gone, blown up in an uncontrollable conflict.
Note, however, that Vladimir Putin also said at Valdai: “I am convinced that we will witness a kind of renaissance, a revival of high diplomatic art. Its essence lies in the ability to engage in dialogue and reach agreements—both with neighbors and like-minded partners, and—no less important but more challenging—with opponents.” Who, however, is still sober enough, or philosophically literate enough among the Atlanticist crowd, to grasp the underlying concepts he referenced? That must be the role performed by Executive Intelligence Review.
Illusions are being shattered. Palestinian spokesmen have recently announced that “viceroy Tony Blair” will not be welcomed as the new overlord of Gaza/West Bank. U.S. President Donald Trump’s emissary Steve Witkoff addressed a rally of what may have been as many as 500,000 Israelis on Saturday night, Oct. 11, and though Witkoff received thunderous applause, at the mere mention of Netanyahu’s name, loud booing spontaneously broke out several times. “Parts of the massive crowd at a rally for the hostages in Tel Aviv on Saturday night broke into a chorus of boos at the mention of Benjamin Netanyahu’s name, repeatedly interrupting U.S. Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff’s praise of the prime minister,” reported the Times of Israel on Sunday, Oct. 12.
The unpopularity of Europe’s governmental “leaders” is at least as great as that just demonstrated in Israel to Witkoff. This unpopularity has been earned. Confused though they may be, the people see through the self-doomed European governments of their respective nations. The French government requires new elections, but President Emmanuel Macron instead reappoints the same inept prime minister who had just resigned days earlier. In Britain, Keir Starmer’s tanking Labour Party credibility is matched by the Conservative Party’s equally disastrous implosion; Germany is being effectively ordered to start another world war, and is dutifully placing itself on the thermonuclear chopping block.
We are witnessing the inexorable power of axioms, like a dead hand on the brain of the living, reducing societies and civilization to imbecilic madness: reductio ad absurdum, it is called.
Executive Intelligence Review was founded by Lyndon LaRouche in the Spring of 1974 as an all-out attack on doomed axiomatic thinking, particularly of the British empiricist variety—the thinking of Hobbes, Locke, David Hume and other employees and policy associates of the British East India Company, the Royal Africa Company, and their descendants, including today crypto-mafia.
As the signs of an impending systemic blowout, worse than in 2007-08, now begin to slowly poke through the veneer of calm, LaRouche’s original ideas in the science of physical economy, as seen in his Oasis Plan proposal, and his intervention in the realm of ideas, rejecting “current events,” “trend analysis,” “geopolitics,” “statistical and systems analysis,” and “counter-culture” as ideological weapons of mass psychological warfare, have prevailed. In the forthcoming turbulent weeks, only those who understand, as LaRouche would say, that “the content of policy is the method by which it is made” are going to be able to think in this time of crisis and to provide the solutions based on the “heavy ideas” that are required. Heavy ideas are “the real deal.”
Contents
Strategic War Danger
- Russia Warns Moldovan Government against Making a 'Grave Mistake' (↓)
- National Leaders Assemble for Sharm El Sheikh Summit (↓)
- Gaza Reconstruction: ‘Neighborhoods Have Been Reduced to Dust’ (↓)
- Lukashenko and the Kremlin Make Urgent Warnings Regarding Ukraine, Strategic Crisis (↓)
- Viceroy Tony Blair Not Welcome in Gaza (↓)
- Weapons Expert Ted Postol Says in Berlin, ‘There Is No Winning a Nuclear War’ (↓)
- Author Wolfgang Bittner Opposes War Craze in Germany (↓)
U.S. and Canada
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