July 19, 2024 (EIRNS)—Yesterday evening, July 18, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán sent out a report on X of his latest efforts in his “mission for peace” to stop the NATO war machine, and get talks going over Ukraine. He attended yesterday’s fourth European Political Community event (begun in 2022), hosted in Britain at Blenheim Palace, attended by over 40 heads of state and leaders of organizations. Orbán’s message carried a short video of himself talking individually to such leaders as French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. He told each one, “Thousands and thousands are dying on the battlefield every day. We will find no #peace on the battlefield, but only at the negotiating table. My goal is to convince European leaders to make a shift to a pro-peace policy.”
Orbán also released, timed with the meeting, the full text of the letter he had sent July 12 to the Brussels leadership of the European Union, which Hungary now heads for six months, as of July 1. The letter is Orbán’s report on his trips to Ukraine, Russia, China, NATO and the United States, to open the door for getting negotiations going to bring peace in Ukraine. He wants to re-open “direct lines of diplomatic communication with Russia,” and rehabilitate political communication all around. He said there has been a “global isolation of the Transatlantic community,” and loss of respect from the Global South. He wrote about China’s intention to “continue its policy also formulated in international documents calling for a ceasefire and peace talks….”
The danger of regional conflict and battle escalating to all-out World War III is unrelenting, and will happen, unless there are significant breaks in the dynamic—diplomatic moves, public protest, mass actions.
To make clear the danger, Helga Zepp-LaRouche today gave an image in her opening remarks to the International Peace Coalition (IPC) about how the world is as close to nuclear war, as President Trump was to the assassin’s bullet that fortunately only grazed his ear. Her message? We have to act.
Today’s IPC deliberations, with people from many countries and continents, was the 59th consecutive gathering, to push and align all possible efforts for the world to see the danger and act to stop it.
The Global NATO war machine is rolling ahead. Outgoing NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg gave an interview to BBC yesterday before the start of the European Political Community summit in the U.K., and reiterated indefinite and expanded support of Ukraine against Russia. He held forth on how the meeting would discuss defending “our democracies, both from external threats, but also from internal threats.”
[An aside: Stoltenberg spoke yesterday morning of defending specifically against “Russian hostile actions against NATO Allies with cyber attacks.” Within less than a day, an unprecedented global cyber failure did take place, but not from Russia, but from the United States! If the current story is to be believed, CrowdStrike, the Texas-based cyber security firm, admits causing the mass IT outage, when doing some updating of its system. The damage to global aviation, banking, hospitals, business, shipping and other activity is huge. “Sorry,” says George Kurtz, CEO of CrowdStrike, infamous for U.S. government shady operations. Consider what this means, as pointed out Jason Ross, Science Adviser to The LaRouche Organization: “It might demonstrate CrowdStrike’s level of expertise in testing their software. This makes them look extremely incompetent. If it’s due to their own errors, they’re a joke. And if the bad code was added from the outside, so much for their security defense credentials!”]
Ukraine President (self-extended term) Volodomyr Zelenskyy, after hobnobbing yesterday at Blenheim Palace, today attended a Ministerial meeting at No. 10 Downing Street, with Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Zelenskyy pressed his request for Ukraine to use U.K. weapons inside Russia.
In Germany, Defense Minister Boris Pistorius yesterday spoke insanely about how the new Germany-U.S. accord for emplacement of U.S. long-range missiles in Germany, set for 2026, will contribute to peace, because they add to “deterrence.” Pistorius said that the government does not yet know the exact locations for the missiles, but there would be no crisis like that sparked by Euromissiles in Germany in the 1980s, when mass protests erupted.
Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov, when asked about Pistorius’ statements, said that if the U.S. missile deployment goes ahead in Germany, the missiles themselves become targets. “If officials from the German Federal government believe it is reasonable to carry out inflammatory activities … there is a wide range of options” for Russia to respond.
There is also new, serious friction with China. The Beijing government this week suspended arms control and nuclear non-proliferation talks with Washington. The immediate issue is U.S. arms sales to Taiwan. “This has seriously compromised the political atmosphere for continuing the arms control consultations. Consequently, the Chinese side has decided to hold off discussion with the U.S. on a new round of consultations on arms control and non-proliferation. The responsibility fully lies with the U.S.,” said Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian July 17, according to Global Times.
Helga Zepp-LaRouche today at the IPC meeting, said at one point, that mass demonstrations today, of hundreds of thousands of people, like those in Bonn and throughout then West Germany in the 1980s, is exactly what we need today. People need to know the truth and react.
She reiterated her call for the formation of a “Council of Reason,” bringing together statesmen, diplomats, elders of all nations, vocations and experience, “to bring back onto the table what true diplomacy is. Because our current politicians have completely forgotten what this is.” There are ways to overcome the dangerous situations. "I believe that the nature of human beings is such that you can appeal to reason, and that we can get out of this mess.
“I think a very crucial stepping stone to this will be to find those elder statesmen, former military, former doctors, people who are in pension age or maybe early retirement or whatever. But who are stepping forward to say we must give ourselves another order, an international peace and development order and architecture which allows for the survival and interest of every country on the planet. And, who can help to change the public debate.”
