Two paths are before the world. One is that of “reaction,” and the other is that of “revolution.” The path of reaction is to cling to the old Trans-Atlantic geopolitical axioms of the post-Franklin Roosevelt, post-1945 era, dominated by British intelligence and its hold, through assassinations, on the United States over the past eighty years. The other path demands a revolutionary change in axioms, as Israel’s Yitzhak Rabin called for before his assassination 30 years ago, November 4, 1995.
Former Knesset Speaker Avrum Burg, who has participated in meetings of the International Peace Coalition, posed a challenge to the axioms of his countrymen on his Substack: “Israel’s actions ... are utterly alien to the Jewish tradition. A tradition built on the sanctity of life, on responsibility for the other, and on the belief that power must serve moral ends cannot coexist with a culture of humiliation and violence.... [A] global Jewish Peace Camp must be created now to prevent the next and greater horrors already on the horizon….”
Dr. Manuel Hassassian, the ambassador from the Palestinian Authority to Denmark, has also proposed an axiomatic change in diplomacy for Gaza, the West Bank, and Southwest Asia. In an Oct. 14 interview, shown on EIR’s Inaugural webcast yesterday, with Schiller Institute founder and head Helga Zepp-LaRouche, the ambassador responded to her question on the feasibility of the implementation of the LaRouche Oasis Plan. He said that now was the best time to do it, and that the basis of long-lasting peace could be established by laying the groundwork for the economic development of the entire Southwest Asia region, not just Israel or Palestine.
These are examples of something that Russian President Vladimir Putin characterized on Oct. 2 as “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.” Probably the greatest example of unconventional diplomacy in East-West history is Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa’s organizing of the 1439 Council of Florence, an attempt to reconcile the Eastern and Western divisions in the Church.
It is Cusa’s work in science and diplomacy, almost single-handedly re-introduced to the general public by Helga Zepp-LaRouche over the past five decades, which is precisely what needs to be studied and copied now. Lessons drawn from Cusa’s work, and not “atheistic” geopolitics— would apply much more closely to resolving today’s unnecessary conflicts with respect to Ukraine, China, and Southwest Asia. Zepp-LaRouche adapted the axiom-busting method from Cusa’s central organizing document for the Council of Florence, “On Learned Ignorance” and presented that method in her document, “Ten Principles for a New International Security and Development Architecture” in 2022.
The purpose of Helga Zepp-LaRouche’s Ten Principles for a New International Security and Development Architecture, and her subsequent call for and organizing of an International Peace Coalition, was to force a confrontation with the axiomatic basis of justification for war. War has, since the advent of the thermonuclear bomb, become obsolete as a means for resolving human conflict among nations. The ludicrous awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to warmongers, something that has been noted since it was given to Henry Kissinger in 1973, indicates how moronically close the world has actually come to thermonuclear conflict.
The two-hour-plus conversation of Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump on Oct. 16, the first long-form discussion between the two since their August 15, 2025 Anchorage, Alaska meeting, also yielded news of a meeting to take place in the near future between the two in Budapest. On his summary of their call, Russian Presidential Spokesman Yury Ushakov said: “It is worthy of note that the presidents discussed the possibility of holding another personal meeting. This is indeed a very significant development. It was agreed that representatives of both countries would immediately begin preparations for the summit, which could potentially be organized in Budapest, for instance.”
What can be, should be, the positive policy input that citizens who believe in a complete change in the axioms governing the fighting of war can have in this higher-order process, so that the planet is not only not blown up, but prospers and even launches a new intellectual and cultural Renaissance in humanity worldwide?
Executive Intelligence Review has, as of October 16, initiated the process of building an “EIR Channel.” Its purpose is not to provide “EIR’s point of view on current events.” Its purpose is to give its readers the means to change the course of current history. To that end, many different elements, in audio and video format will be brought to bear—interviews, the EIR Daily Alert, and occasional in-depth presentation of topics widely ignored by both the “legacy” and “alternative” media.
This, rather than mindless scrolling, can become the practice of daily deliberation for tens or hundreds of thousands of those who would intellectually “take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them.” This is your chance to make that revolutionary change in thinking, that can change the world.
