Have we, in the last week, drifted into the activation of a thermonuclear weapons-use scenario involving the United States, Russia, Ukraine, Israel and Iran? At yesterday’s meeting of the International Peace Coalition, former United Nations Special Commission weapons inspector, intelligence officer and analyst Scott Ritter warned, “one stroke of a pen authorizing long range weapons to be fired (by Ukraine) into Russia will generate a Russian response, leading to a nuclear exchange to a general nuclear war.” On Monday, October 14, European Union foreign ministers will meet in Brussels on the topics of providing more military and energy aid to Ukraine. On October 17-18, NATO defense ministers meet in Brussels on more military aid. Meanwhile, various press outlets report a virtual “shouting match” between Netanyahu and Biden in recent days, with Kamala Harris also involved. Some have suggested that Trump’s recent support for Israeli strikes against the Iranian nuclear program was either an inadvertent or intentional endorsement for the Israelis to use nuclear weapons.
Whatever may be the case, the situation indicates a loss of control, in a circumstance where the slightest miscalculation, in the present, pervasive atmosphere of mistrust, could lead to civilizational disaster. BRICS and other forces in the world have made their voices heard, and the October 22 Kazan summit is defining a new direction for the world as a whole. But the LaRouche and other forces in the trans-Atlantic sector must find new ways to act, now, to wake up those who wish to believe that “nuclear war is impossible, because I can’t imagine it.”
Speaker: Harley Schlanger
