The Lead
Nuclear War or a New Paradigm: That Is the Question
by Megan Dobrodt (EIRNS) — Nov. 15, 2025
It is the nature of times such as these—the upheaval of the collapse of an old, dying system and what will hopefully be the successful transition to a new, more human paradigm—that the world is moving in two directions at once, and that the tension of uncertainty and ambiguity hangs over all of our heads.
That tension is palpable in, for the example, what one White House official [called]() “purposefully vague” statements of President Trump regarding the resumption of nuclear weapons testing. “We will do nuclear testing,” Trump told reporters aboard Airforce One on Friday, Dec. 14. “I don’t want to tell you about that, but we will do nuclear testing like other countries do.” However, in the same interview, the President said, “What I would like to do is denuclearize, in other words, where we have a meeting primarily of the top three [nuclear powers] to cut back on nuclear weapons.”
If Trump is serious about denuclearizing, then response must be given to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s Sept. 22 offer to abide by the limits of the New START treaty, set to end on Feb. 5, 2026, for one year after its expiration. As of now, according to Russian Permanent Representative to International Organizations in Vienna Mikhail Ulyanov, no response has been received. “There are currently no signs that the Americans are amenable to this. I can’t speak to what they’re thinking,” he said.
The situation around war with Venezuela is equally nerve-wracking. A parade of top military officials and senior staff has descended on the White House for at least three days in a row to present Trump with the possible military options with regard to Venezuela. Missing among these, at least to EIR’s knowledge, is the option to not start a new war and not act like the new British Empire in the Western Hemisphere. For his part, Trump told reporters on Friday, “I sort of have made up my mind … I can’t tell you what it would be.”
What Trump has not held back on is throwing a childish fit against the specter of loss of support from his base. In a frenetic series of social media posts on Friday and Saturday, Trump raged against Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, who, along with other “MAGA” Republicans, has become increasingly outspoken against the horrors in Gaza, the folly of a new war in Venezuela, the need to release the Epstein files, and the lack of regard for the actual condition of the American people. In response to Trump’s wailing, Greene posted what many in Trump’s base have been thinking: “It’s astonishing really how hard he’s fighting to stop the Epstein files from coming out that he actually goes to this level. But really most Americans wish he would fight this hard to help the forgotten men and women of America who are fed up with foreign wars and foreign causes, are going broke trying to feed their families, and are losing hope of ever achieving the American dream.”
And yet, the solutions are at hand, and are being discussed at both the highest levels of government and in the streets of many nations around the world, as was seen at last weekend’s Solidarité et Progrès conference in Paris, France, where dozens of young people, and many more besides, gathered to discuss how to pull the world out of the current crisis and into a new paradigm. A deployment team of young people from half a dozen countries, who attended that conference, has been organizing in the streets of Paris over the past week, speaking to hundreds of people about those solutions.
“We will only get out of this,” Helga Zepp-LaRouche told the International Peace Coalition meeting on Nov. 14, “if a large number of people take it as their personal commitment to not remain just impotent masses, but to say, ‘I want to become a state citizen. I want to be able to think like a President, like a Minister, like a top-qualified expert. And I will engage in lifelong learning to be able to accomplish that.’ Because that is what is needed. The oligarchy and the empires only function if they have large masses of people who think they cannot do anything. Once you have large masses of people who are qualified to do something, the oligarchy will vanish, because they will not be tolerated.”
Contents
Strategic War Danger
- To Test or Not To Test (↓)
- IAEA Chief Says U.S. and Russia Require the 'Strongest Possible Dialogue' on Nuclear Weapons (↓)
- U.S. Announces Successful Drop Testing of B61-12 Bomb (↓)
- Trump Says He's ‘Sort of’ Decided on Venezuela (↓)
- Trump Administration Concocted Legal Rationale To Fit the Policy of Killing Boats in the Caribbean (↓)
- Trinidad and Tobago Officials Talk Up Coming U.S. Military Exercises (↓)
- Russia and U.S. Circulate Alternative UNGA Resolutions on Gaza Peace Plan (↓)
- 'Famine Continues' in Gaza Says UNRWA Official (↓)
U.S. and Canada
Collapsing Imperial System
- Orban Challenges EU Ban of Russian Gas (↓)
- Marco Rubio Salivates Over Potential Right-Wing Win in Chile's Nov. 16 Elections (↓)
