British Gnash Teeth over Trump, but Are Working Feverishly To Start a European War against Russia
By Dennis Small
March 16, 2025 (EIRNS)—There are things happening in the foreground of the picture which are decisive—but don’t make the mistake of ignoring what’s quietly going on in the background, or just out of view, or we could be in for a nasty surprise. For example:
Foreground: Presidents Trump and Putin are expected to speak again this week, according to U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff, to try to advance on their common commitment to end the Ukraine war at the negotiating table. Both sides continue to refer to the exchanges as “productive,” and they remain engaged despite every effort by the British and their U.S. allies to derail the process. The danger of nuclear war has receded markedly—at least, the danger coming from that front. The situation in Southwest Asia is another matter, especially with the latest U.S. attacks on Yemen and threats against Iran.
Background: The British have turned their full attention to Europe, working through their City of London and Wall Street assets (think BlackRock; or the new Canadian Prime Minister—and former Governor of the Bank of England—Mark Carney) to wind up the EU into a full Schachtian war buildup, and then march them East against Russia. As unlikely as it might sound at first blush, there is serious discussion underway about developing and deploying what London’s The Economist calls “the Eurobomb.” At least it’s time to start thinking the unthinkable, they wrote in a recent feature article. They suggest that Europe must be ready to fire nuclear missiles “at, presumably, Russian cities,” if the United States won’t.
It wouldn’t be the first time the British Empire has tried this gambit. In the 1930s, the City of London’s Montagu Norman, Governor of the Bank of England from 1920-1944, placed his protégé Hjalmar Schacht as head of the German Reichsbank central bank and then as Hitler’s Economics Minister. Schacht issued unlimited amounts of worthless “Mefo bill” credit to finance Hitler’s war machine, which was then turned eastward against the Soviet Union.
That British operation didn’t turn out so well for the world. Nor will the current one, if it is allowed to proceed.
Readers of EIR are urged to read about the parallels between Schacht’s Mefo bills and today’s crypto-currencies and so-called “stablecoins,” as we have reported this month; and to study Lyndon LaRouche’s own writings exposing the fraud of Schachtian economics.
Moreover, help us mobilize to stop this attempted Hitlerian rerun in Europe by signing the appeal issued by Helga Zepp-LaRouche, “Instead of Rearming for the Great War, We Need To Create a Global Security Architecture!” As the concluding section of that appeal states:
“Europe has reacted to Trump’s sudden signals for an end to the Ukraine war and a resumption of diplomacy with Russia with great panic—and cries for war. But there is still time to correct this potentially fatal course. If Europe wants to overcome its current economic misery, the way out lies in cooperation with the nations of the Global South, which has long since become the Global Majority. Humanity has reached the point where it must overcome the old patterns of thought steeped in geopolitics and the Cold War and replace them with a new global security and development architecture that takes into account the interests of all nations on this planet.”
