The future state of human civilization—and whether there will, indeed, be a human civilization—is the question being actively and consciously fought out on the world stage as you read this. The widening gulf between the increasingly chaotic, desperate, and incompetent moves coming from the Trump administration and its empire sponsors and the flurry of diplomacy, statecraft, and statements of moral leadership from more sane quarters of the world is characteristic of such a historic process.
Take the comments from the past few days of two of the “adults in the room,” both of whom point to the fact that the crises in the world are the outgrowth of a historic shift within human history away from a dying colonial paradigm.
On Monday, during his visit to Algeria, Pope Leo XIV pointed out that “Africa knows all too well that people and organizations that dominate others destroy the world…. By respecting the dignity of everyone and allowing yourselves to be moved by the pain of others, instead of multiplying misunderstandings and conflicts, you can surely become protagonists in a new chapter of history. Today this is more urgent than ever in the face of continuous violations of international law and neocolonial tendencies.”
Likewise, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, at a press conference in Beijing following two days of meetings with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and President Xi Jinping, said that Russia and China “are interested in foiling the open attempts by the West, including the United States and Europe, to maintain or even renew their hegemony in the hope that the 500-year long experience of controlling the world…could be modernized and further used to continue living off others and bend them to their will.”
The purpose of Lavrov’s trip to Beijing was not only to consult on and coordinate actions respecting various urgent “hot spots” in the world, but also to prepare an upcoming visit to China of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has been working in closer and closer harmony with his Chinese counterpart to stabilize the world economy, energy market, and beyond. Xi Jinping, in public remarks during his meeting with Lavrov on Wednesday, noted the importance of strengthening China–Russia strategic coordination in the midst of a changing and turbulent international situation and urged deeper cooperation to move the international order in a more just and reasonable direction.
Contrast these efforts of future-oriented statecraft with the knee-jerk hysteria coming from the Trump administration, which continues to cling to the deranged mentality of “might makes right, international law be damned”: On Wednesday, Trump doubled down on his attack on Pope Leo XIV, posting in the wee hours of the morning, “Will someone please tell Pope Leo that Iran has killed at least 42,000 innocent, completely unarmed, protesters in the last two months, and that for Iran to have a Nuclear Bomb is absolutely unacceptable.” As if that wasn’t unhinged enough, the night before, Vice President JD Vance, a so-called Catholic and a Palantir-made politician, presumed to correct the Pope’s theology: “If you’re going to opine on matters of theology, you’ve got to be careful; you’ve got to be sure it’s anchored in the truth… It would be best for the Vatican to stick to matters of morality and let the President of the United States stick to dictating American public policy,” Vance pontificated.
Perhaps the worst demonstration of degeneracy from the West, however, came from the US Senate, the elected representatives of the American people, which on Wednesday abrogated its Constitutionally mandated responsibility to declare war by once again voting down a War Powers resolution to halt the war in Iran in a mostly party-line vote of 47 to 52.
If the fate of human civilization is left in the hands of the Western elites, the system of the Epstein class and their defenders, there is no doubt that our species may very well find itself having fallen over the precipice of nuclear war, too late to stop it. If, however, we—all of us world citizens of goodwill—think as statesmen and -women, we will mobilize. Mobilize from inside and outside the United States to cut off the funding for the Iran war—overwhelm Congress until they act. Join and help to build the discussion of the International Peace Coalition, whose next meeting is Friday, April 17.
And think, alongside great statesmen like Lyndon LaRouche, of what kind of new system—security, development, and cultural—humanity will need as we move beyond the primitive condition of tolerating colonialism. LaRouche gave you your marching orders in 2004 in a writing called, “What Does Culture Do?":
“We have come to a time in the development of humanity, at which the principle of the 1648 Treaty of Westphalia must be consistently applied to the effect of establishing a world order premised upon a community of perfectly sovereign nation-state republics, each and all committed to the guiding principle of ‘the advantage of the other.’… Empire in any guise, by anyone, is an expression of the most deadly of the childhood moral diseases of humanity. The essential self-interest of any person, and of any nation, is not what he, or she, takes away from life, but what his or her developed talent gives to humanity at large. We are each and all born, and shall surely die, sooner or later. Let us be accordingly wise; let us not hope to keep what dies with us, in any case, but treasure that which lives after, especially that which has come into existence because we have lived.”
