Alarming though it is for those of us who wish to survive until next month, it should come as no surprise that the Epstein-class Western establishment—as the world is increasingly learning the extent and depth of perversion of that system—is driving to unleash a new war with Iran.
Take the Feb. 14 speech of Little Marco Rubio in Munich, in which he postured the same anti-human “might makes right” ideology motivating the kidnapping of Venezuelan President Maduro and the horrific economic strangulation of Cuba. “In the substance, I think it was a rather hardened idea of the U.S. position to keep the unipolar dominance in the world, to keep the colonial system intact,” Helga Zepp-LaRouche remarked of Rubio’s speech in her Feb. 18 webcast. “…I do not think that in substance the situation has become less dangerous…. If you look at Latin America, if you look at the Pacific, and you look at the situation in respect to the determination to give Russia a defeat, which has not changed on the side of some Europeans at least; I think we are not out of the danger zone in the slightest.”
The truth of that statement is felt acutely in the brewing situation in Southwest Asia. Even as US and Iranian delegates met in Geneva for diplomatic negotiation, the US continued its massive military buildup in the region, with some experts saying that the force now present, alongside that of the Israeli military, could potentially carry out a weeks-long operation against Iran and some worry that Trump is close to ordering a strike. US Vice President JD Vance’s remarks after his Geneva meeting with Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Arraghchi certainly relieve no worries in that direction: “It was very clear that the president has set some red lines that the Iranians are not yet willing to actually acknowledge and work through namely that Iran give up its nuclear program entirely, which [Iranian officials have reiterated they will not do —ed.] … We’re going to keep on working it, but of course, the president reserves the ability to say when he thinks that diplomacy has reached its natural end.”
The strategic danger extends beyond Southwest Asia. Veteran Russian geopolitical strategist Sergey Karaganov, the Honorary Chairman of the Presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, issued a long article in Russia In Global Affairs in which he reiterates his call for the use of nuclear weapons as “deterrent,” even stating that “at the expert level, we should abandon the outdated notion that ‘there are no winners in a nuclear war.’” Though this outlook is strongly opposed by many within Russia—including Putin himself—paired with a similar orientation by those in Washington who are pushing for a doubling or tripling of deployed nuclear forces in the wake of the Feb. 5 expiration of the New START treaty, the existence of the human species is not at all secure.
Is it really any coincidence that more and more names of those carrying out open genocide in Gaza, pushing for a confrontation against a nuclear-armed Russia, declaring international law irrelevant, and practicing economic rape of entire nations are being found in the Epstein files? The degraded view of human beings that would permit someone to commit—or cover up for—the sexual crimes of the Epstein class is one and the same with that which underlies the criminal policies of that geopolitical system.
What is to be done?
“We need a true cultural renaissance,” Zepp-LaRouche said to the International Peace Coalition meeting of Feb 6. We need to go back to the values where man is not regarded as an animal which has to be controlled by some Leviathan, some dictatorship because man is evil by nature. We have to create a renaissance where we connect the best traditions of each culture with a positive perspective of the future. If we do not do that—especially in the West, where that has been absent; the Asian countries have been doing that by evoking the 5,000 years or more of cultural continuity with an optimistic perspective for the future. In the West there has been only cover-up and pragmatism; and therefore, we are still in the incredible cultural crisis we are facing today. I think maybe we should add to the security and development architecture, a cultural architecture. Because unless we go back to the best traditions of the American Revolution which now has its 250th anniversary and which unfortunately has been forgotten by most Americans living today. And in Europe likewise, we have to go back to the Italian Renaissance, the German Classical period, and the same in other cultures in Africa, Latin America, and Asia, to bring back the best traditions. If we do not have such a cultural renewal, I don’t think we will mobilize the moral forces to get mankind into a better era.”
