Nov. 23, 2024 (EIRNS)—We are, without question, in a mass extinction event. The question is, what will go extinct? Facing the existential threat of peace, the ghouls of war running the Biden administration, in their desperation, authorized the use of U.S. and NATO long-range weapons inside Russia, putting the two biggest nuclear powers on the planet at war—an unsurvivable prospect. On the other hand, were the U.S. citizens and institutions of government to reject geopolitics, to wake up from their decades-long sleep of reason and reclaim the anti-colonial raison d’être of our nation, it is the evil ideology of geopolitics and colonialism which will, finally, be exterminated.
That decision has been a long time coming, but must be made in the next days, weeks, or perhaps, hours.
Following the Nov. 19 Ukrainian launch of the U.S.-supplied and -supported ATACMS missiles against targets inside Russia, Russia deployed a completely new weapon against targets in Ukraine—the Mach 10 hypersonic Oreshnik intermediate-range ballistic missile system, which no nation on the planet, not even the all-powerful NATO countries, has the power to intercept. This fact has been stated plainly by Russian leadership and confirmed by experts in the West.
After the deployment of the missiles, President Putin statedplainly, “I would like to emphasize once again that it was not Russia, but the United States that destroyed the international security system and, by continuing to fight, cling to its hegemony, they are pushing the whole world into a global conflict.”
The responses in the West to the Russian move were varied. Those whose rotten thinking won’t permit them to break their vows to a colonial world order either denied the obvious significance of the Russian move, or shrieked, in their selective amnesia, that it was Putin who had just escalated the terms of the conflict.
Others, however, were more outspoken about the danger. Former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter, speaking at a Nov. 22 meeting of the International Peace Coalition, warned, “Putin just put us on notice that he has a conventional missile system that is designed to preempt anything and everything NATO plans on doing to Russia…. By revealing this missile and showing his willingness to use this, Putin has literally given the West two options: Capitulate, or nuclear war. We have to find a way to find a third option.”
More in the West are being shocked out of their slumber.
Texas Congressman Keith Self sent a letter to President Biden on Nov. 19 which states, “Since your recent actions seem to be pushing the world closer to the brink of nuclear war, I hereby request a classified briefing prior to Monday, Nov. 25 regarding full details of your administration’s agreement on Ukraine’s stipulated rules of engagement with regard to the long-range ATACMS.” Self ends his letter by advising, “If this briefing is not provided, I will immediately move for further oversight.”
Representative Self’s letter joins a nervous chorus of voices, including Congressman Thomas Massie and Sen. Josh Hawley, for whom the idea of a United States crossing the line into war with Russia finally illuminated the nuclear danger we have been in the whole time.
What is required is that this small chorus against nuclear extinction grow—in both number and volume—and quickly.
How to inspire such a movement for survival? You must give the population a concept of what they must survive for: What is the new system, the new world order, which is already taking the place of the outmoded one?
The newly-inaugurated Chancay Port in Peru, the just-begun standard gauge railway in Uganda, the agreements for win-win cooperation which can end poverty among the BRICS-Plus nations, are all creatures of the new, post-extinction world. Could the U.S. join such a new era? Would we survive without it?
For those who would like to survive a mass extinction, your only option is to change humanity’s destiny by changing its governing ideas. That is the subject of the upcoming Schiller Institute Dec. 7—8 online conference, “In the Spirit of Schiller and Beethoven: All Men Become Brethren!” Register now!
Let the troglodytes of war perish—organize an upward evolution of ideas.
