In a dramatic reversal of his strident warnings over the past months of the danger of World War III, Leonid Slutsky, chairman of the Committee on International Affairs of the Russian State Duma, and leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR), told TASS on Dec. 28 that he believes that the threat of direct conflict between the two nuclear superpowers has passed.
“I think that we have already passed the point of no return between peace and war, when there was a threat of confrontation between the two largest nuclear powers, what we saw during the [former U.S. President Joe] Biden administration. Now, step by step, in small steps, I would say, things are returning to common sense, to balanced interaction on all the most difficult dossiers, cases, and issues,” TASS quoted him as saying.
He emphasized that the most urgent business at hand was to collaborate to reduce the number of conflicts globally. “We will spare no effort for that. It is important to do everything possible so that the 21st century doesn’t become the last in human history.”
Could it be that the Bering Straits Tunnel project, as promoted by Helga Zepp-LaRouche in her coverage in TASS in October 2025, is indeed being studied by world leaders as a new paradigm for peace? As she noted at that time, “It is obvious to President Trump that the normalization of U.S.-Russian relations will open tremendous prospects for the development of the economic cooperation between the two countries…. It’s good for the world.”
