TASS, the news service of the Russian Federation, on April 6 published two articles taken from a recent interview with Helga Zepp-LaRouche, EIR Editor-in-Chief, founder of the Schiller Institute. In the wide ranging interview on global strategic matters, Zepp-LaRouche proposed a pathway to peace—to avoid near term global conflagration—and the matter of the “completely reckless” threat that the U.K. and France would soon provide a nuclear weapon to Ukraine. The wire service articles appeared both in English and in Russian.
In the article titled, “Russia-U.S. Dialogue Essential to Tackle Global Challenges—Expert,” https://tass.com/world/2112241 Zepp-LaRouche states: “As the Republican Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna correctly noted, it is of the utmost importance, that the representatives of the world’s two largest nuclear powers have an open dialogue, and share ideas about crucial matters. The world is clearly in an epochal change, where the outcome is not clear at all. It could either end up in a catastrophe, or it could lead to a new era in human history, where the earlier methods of conflict resolution through wars, coups, regime change through ‘color revolutions,’ and terrorism are overcome for good, and replaced with dialogue and cooperation for mutual benefit.
“People to people dialogue, among youth, among scientists and artists, sportsmen and, naturally, elected officials on all levels, are an irreplaceable element in this. If such an exchange is connected with a dialogue of cultures and civilizations, where all sides learn about the best contributions of the others, not only will humanity outgrow its present problems, but through such an exchange we will create a new renaissance, more beautiful than all previous ones.”
TASS explained that the recent visit to Washington, D.C. of top members of Russia’s Duma, the lower house of Russia’s legislature, to meet with U.S. congressmen and representatives of the Trump administration, reestablished the Russian-U.S. interparliamentary dialogue which had been shut down for many years. The chief of the Russian delegation, a leading Russian political figure, Vyacheslav Nikonov, First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs, said he believed the visit could be described as historic.
The second TASS article was titled, “Expert Slams Potential Move To Provide Nuclear Weapons to Ukraine as ‘Completely Reckless.'” According to Helga Zepp-LaRouche, ‘such a step could be the proverbial straw that breaks the camel’s back, since the overall strategic climate is already one of disarray.’” [https://tass.com/world/2112219] [https://tass.ru/mezhdunarodnaya-panorama/27010907] As background, TASS explained that Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) had recently reported that the U.K. and France were actively working to provide a nuclear bomb and delivery means to Ukraine. According to the SVR, one option being considered is the French TN75 warhead from the M51.1 submarine-launched ballistic missile.
