Feb. 26, 2025 (EIRNS)—We can agree with Sir Keir Starmer on one thing: This is “a world where everything has changed.”
Those were the words that the flummoxed British Prime Minister used in a speech to the House of Commons on Feb. 25, as he nervously prepared for a meeting at the White House with President Donald Trump on Feb. 27. As the British Monarchy’s envoy, Starmer’s mission is to salvage, at all costs, the Churchillian “British-American Special Relationship,” through which the City of London and Wall Street have maintained their control over a bankrupt unipolar world order, ever since FDR’s untimely death.
Helga Zepp-LaRouche explained in her weekly webcast today: “The British-American Special Relationship has been at the core of everything that went wrong in the post Cold War period. That was the driving motor to create the unipolar world, and all the ugly aspects that came with it: interventions in more than 100 countries around the world for regime-change purposes … all in order to protect an empire which was based on the British-American special relationship, using the model of the British Empire as the way to rule the world.” Zepp-LaRouche asserted: “Now if that is coming to an end, that is the best news you can get!”
Starmer’s second objective in Washington is to ensure that peace does not break out in Ukraine, that Presidents Trump and President Putin do not succeed in putting an end to the carnage.
But Starmer’s problem is that the world has changed drastically as a result of the Feb. 12 phone conversation between Trump and Putin, followed by high-level diplomatic discussions between their representatives in Riyadh on Feb. 18. Not only are both sides committed to normalizing their relations, and to work out a peace that addresses the underlying causes that led to the war; the two nations have even begun to talk about possible joint economic cooperation on mutually beneficial projects.
“The U.S. is now the enemy of the West,” exclaimed the Financial Times’s Chief Economic Commentator, Commander of the British Empire (CBE) Martin Wolf. London’s The Economist magazine agreed: “Faced with a collapsing transatlantic alliance, stunned European leaders this week began a diplomatic effort to salvage what is left of it.”
On Monday, Feb. 24, after speaking with 30 (!) other heads of state, gathering his shattered wits, French President Emmanuel Macron met with President Trump at the White House to try to derail the peace process for Ukraine. Strike one.
On Wednesday, Feb. 26, the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Kaja Kallas flew to Washington to meet with Secretary of State Marco Rubio—who cancelled the meeting due to “scheduling issues.” Strike two.
On Thursday, Feb. 27, Starmer will arrive in Washington to meet with Trump. He will not be amused to learn that an energetic squad of organizers from The LaRouche Organization (TLO) on Wednesday blanketed the Congress with a fact sheet demanding an end to the Special Relationship.
And on Friday, Feb. 28, the hapless Volodymyr Zelenskyy will arrive in Washington to talk to Trump about hocking Ukraine’s mineral wealth to U.S. financial interests, in hopes of receiving elusive “security guarantees” from the U.S.
Zepp-LaRouche summarized the situation: “I have the feeling that the European elites have really lost the connection to reality for such a long time, that they cannot adjust to a changing strategic situation…. When someone has lost all touch with reality, you normally call them insane.”
That changing world that the Establishment elites are having such difficulty fathoming and responding to, includes the full blossoming of the nations of the Global Majority around a common commitment to a new paradigm. For instance, at a Feb. 24 meeting of the UN Human Rights Commission, India’s Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar explained that “India’s unwavering commitment to human rights is deeply rooted in its enduring philosophy of global unity, openness, and mutual respect.” India’s philosophy of Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam, he added, views the world “as one family…. And today, more than ever, this perspective is urgently needed…. We firmly believe that in these times, the world needs all of us, together.”
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi presented his country’s comparable view: “China, caring deeply for the future of humanity and the well-being of all countries, will be a practitioner of international cooperation, of international cooperation, a promoter of mutual learning among civilizations, and a builder of a community with a shared future for mankind,” he explained.
Those are thoughts, and incorporated concepts of the image of Man, that will also be required of the nations of the West to jointly generate a new international security and development architecture.
“Unless we cultivate a higher level of statecraft,” Zepp-LaRouche warned, “we won’t get out of the pit.”
