Feb. 22, 2025 (EIRNS)—The new Trump administration is rapidly changing the environment surrounding NATO’s war against Russia being conducted in Ukraine. EU parliamentarians have said they were told the U.S. would withdraw in three weeks. Ukrainian parliamentarians have said that the supply of weapons from the U.S. has been shut off. Some EU leaders are behaving as adults—such as Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico, who has called for the conflict to be concluded by the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, while others are demanding a medley of military expenditures, nuclear weapon procurements, and alliances to prevent peace from breaking out.
In this environment, it is becoming increasingly clear where the war party is headquartered, whose representatives, formal or not, are located. The shrillest cries are coming from London, from the think tanks and supposedly “intellectual” circles that have given the world many of its greatest calamities. To defend Europe, Britain must rebuild its tactical nuclear arsenal, demands London’s The Telegraph. The normalization of relations between the U.S. and Russia is akin to the non-aggression pact between the Nazis and the Soviet Union, hyperventilates British mouthpiece Ambrose Evans-Pritchard. There must be an additional €250 billion invested in defeating Russia, thunder the think tanks. Otherwise, they say, “Russia could have the military strength to attack the EU states in the next three to ten years. We must classify this as a real danger.”
These overwrought demands stem from a recognition that the tide has changed, at least in the case of Ukraine. The U.S. administration is no longer willing to send weapons, matériel, and funds into the black hole of Ukraine weapons dealing and money laundering. There can be no goal in this conflict of “defeating” Russia, something that neither the Nazis nor Napoléon were able to accomplish, as President Trump likes to point out. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has announced that the U.S. will present a resolution on peacefully resolving the conflict to the United Nations General Assembly.
One development in the field of communications privacy draws out the divergence between U.K. imperial interests and those of the United States:
U.S. Senator Ron Wyden and Congressman Andy Biggs have made a bicameral and bipartisan request to Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, asking her to push back on U.K. demands for U.S. tech company Apple to decrypt all data stored by its users around the world, and make it available to U.K. authorities. This outrageous overreach speaks to the desperation of the London elites. Following the reported request from the U.K., Apple has instead decided to stop offering its advanced encryption in the U.K., rather than degrade its security worldwide.)
Washington will be visited next week by U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer—a grown man who in the year 2025 relishes his right to be called “Sir.” This presents a useful opportunity to remind the United States of its revolutionary origins in the first successful anti-colonial war: the American Revolution.
The great conflicts and potential conflicts in the world today: NATO against Russia, the “West” against China, Israel’s destruction of Palestine—they seem all the pettier when you consider mankind’s shared interests and common dangers.
The recent calculations showing that an asteroid could strike the Earth in 2032, destroying whatever metro area it may impact, should wake us up to the need for international cooperation on a Strategic Defense of Earth: a global effort to detect and deflect menacing space rocks, while offering enormous economic benefits through the science drivers necessary to achieve that mission, most notably nuclear fusion.
Learn more from the Feb. 21 LaRouche Organization Symposium with Diane Sare and Jason Ross.
