Chinese President Xi Jiniping, speaking Sep. 1 at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, described to attendees the framework of the new world currently taking shape: The SCO’s “biggest achievement is that it has steadily grown into a new type of regional cooperation organization... Its most valuable spiritual asset is that it pioneered, and has since followed invariably, the Shanghai Spirit of mutual trust, mutual benefit, equality, consultation, respect for diversity of civilizations, and pursuit of common development. Its most important experience for cooperation is that it has found the right way of coexistence featuring non-alliance, non-confrontation and not targeting any third party, enabling regional countries to build a common home together.”
Western media and pundits have largely attempted to either play down the event’s significance, calling it a
However, the real reason for these attacks is that these pundits, whether they know it or not, are still controlled by Henry Kissinger’s [racist??] maxim: “History isn’t made in the South.”
If we put the absurdity of this notion aside for the moment and assume that it still holds, consider the insanity that is currently gripping the so-called Collective West.
The U.S. has restarted strikes against Iran, in a war that has already caused the largest shock to global energy and export markets in decades. In its strikes on Tuesday Sep. 1, the U.S. hit a wedding ceremony in southern Iran that killed at least four and injured dozens, reminding many of the deadly strike that killed over 160 school girls in Minab early in the war. Despite this, the U.S. is no closer to achieving any of its stated goals than it was in February before it began, and has failed to even get its closest allies to support it.
U.S. President Donald Trump delusionally expressed the forgoing of any further pretenses of diplomacy, posting on Truth Social Sep. 2: “I’m not trying to force Iran to the bargaining table… I couldn’t care less if they sign a worthless, to them, agreement. I like our position now much better, with almost total control of the Hormuz Strait, and their economy totally collapsing.” Further, a U.S. official told Axios that the U.S. may simply resign itself to periodically “mow the lawn” in Iran, claiming the strikes bought a month of reduced threat to shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.
Europe is equally gripped by madness. On Sep. 1, the German government officially declared Russia to be responsible for an attempted drone attack at the Leipzig/Halle Airport last month, where an explosive-laden drone was found sitting nearby a Ukrainian plane. Germany provided no evidence, yet declared themselves in a hybrid war with the world’s largest nuclear power, and summoned the Russian ambassador to the Foreign Ministry in Berlin. In a show of “solidarity,” other EU nations also summoned their respective Russian ambassadors as well.
Not to be outdone, Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky announced Sep. 1 that Kiev was preparing to close all of Russia’s airspace, and threatened that civilian aircraft should avoid the “completely unsafe” conditions they will create. This stunt will obviously not work to any degree in the real world, although it may create some emotional stirrings in the minds of its supporters. Russian President Vladimir Putin pointed out the obvious—that it’s merely further proof of Kiev’s adoption of “state terrorism” as policy. This and other escalations have caused Russia to massively escalate its attacks on Ukraine over the recent days, turning the country into a wasteland—all under the encouragement of Western Russophobes intent on fighting Russia “to the last Ukrainian.”
Speaking on her weekly webcast on Sep. 2, Helga Zepp-LaRouche addressed this global duality:
“The world has to recognize that the majority of the world is moving in the direction of peaceful cooperation for the mutual benefit of all participating nations. Because in Bishkek, there were 10 member states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, plus 15 observers who are basically countries aspiring to become members. And as Putin stated in a press conference, this combination of people represents 42% of the world population, that’s almost half, and one third of the GDP, and I think also about one third of the landmass territory. So since these countries basically agreed with their principles to be in a mutually beneficial relationship to each other, discussing any conflicts through mutual discussion and negotiations, diplomacy, it’s a new model of cooperation. And in combination with the BRICS, it is a new form of world system, where one country is not dominant and the other ones are colonial subjects, like you have in the West, but it is a new model of cooperation. And I think this is the future…
“This is then carried on in the Vladivostok Eastern Economic Forum, where 5,000 participants are there from 70 countries… that continuation of strong economic power and the wish to continuously go in the direction where the other Asian countries have been moving for the last several years, where the only growth rates actually have been in Asia; I think this is a momentum the West is completely ignoring, even if it’s very hard to ignore because it is the most powerful development… This will, in one way or another, be continued at the BRICS conference, the BRICS summit in New Delhi.
“So I think the signs are that all the efforts to divide the BRICS countries and run operations against them individually are not really playing out well. And I think that the momentum of the future of the world, provided that the insane elements in the West are not ruining everything with nuclear war; I think that is the future and it is a model of how countries can cooperate. And if the European countries and even the United States would just get reasonable and say we should stop the effort to smash this and rather reach out and say let’s cooperate for the common good of humanity, all problems could be solved relatively easily. But I don’t see that reason dawning yet.”
