April 26, 2025 (EIRNS)—President Vladimir Putin announced on April 26 that the Russian armed forces had succeeded in fully expelling the Ukrainian military from the Kursk region of Russia, which Ukraine had invaded nearly nine months ago, on Aug. 6, 2024. In a solemn, televised exchange with Chief of the Russian General Staff Valery Gerasimov, Putin made it clear that Russia intends to keep fighting until a peace can be negotiated which takes Russia’s security concerns fully into account. “The complete defeat of the enemy in the Kursk border area creates conditions for further successful actions by our troops in other important areas of the front,” Putin told Gerasimov.
This is the reality on the ground in Ukraine—a reality which U.S. President Trump recognizes and is taking into account in attempting to cobble together a workable peace proposal.
London, however, with Kiev and most European capitals in tow, is intent on completely ignoring that reality, and is trying to figure out a way to again blow up the U.S.-Russia relationship in order to get a NATO war against Russia back on track. So far that hasn’t worked, but don’t expect the British Empire to take “no” for an answer.
This week’s explosion of the long-simmering India-Pakistan flashpoint, with the terrorist murder of 26 Indian tourists in the disputed Kashmir region, was made to order to suit those British strategic goals. Already the Indian side has suspended the critical Indus Waters Treaty of 1960, which is vital to both countries’ survival, and Pakistani authorities have responded by issuing dire threats that any actual cut-off of waters from the Indus, would be taken as an “act of war.”
The governments of Russia, China, Iran, and Saudi Arabia have all quickly denounced the escalation, and offered their good offices to help resolve the crisis peacefully. Iranian Foreign Minister Araghchi stated on Friday, April 25, that both India and Pakistan are brother nations of Iran, and he quoted the famous 13th-century Persian poet Saadi, who wrote:
“Human Beings are members of a whole
In creation of one essence and soul
If one member is inflicted with pain
Other members uneasy will remain."
Compare the view of Man conveyed by Saadi’s verse, and the method of diplomacy it calls forth, with the diametrically opposite view of British geopolitics. An unpleasant reminder of the latter, and its continuing sway in Washington and other Western capitals, came in the form of an article published in Foreign Affairs by Elbridge Colby (#3 in the Pentagon) and A. Wess Mitchell (a State Department official during Trump’s first presidency), who argued that great geopolitical thinkers such as Metternich (Henry Kissinger’s favorite), “did not believe they could transform hostile countries into friendly ones through logic and reason.” Diplomacy cannot “overcome irreconcilable visions of how the world should be,” the authors wrote, nor should it “seek to remove the sources of conflict.”
Not surprisingly, such axiomatically flawed thinking led Colby and Mitchell to the suicidal proposal that the United States try to court Russia with a negotiated peace in Ukraine, in order to split Russia from China, and then focus on launching an all-out Western drive to contain and eventually collapse China—a nation of 1.4 billion people!
Far better to take up China’s offer to cooperate with the United States, and all nations, in opening up the cosmos to Man’s discovery. “Through China’s aerospace endeavors, we see an ocean of stars made possible by humanity’s collaboration,” a lead editorial in the April 26 Global Times stated. “China’s space program has demonstrated over more than half a century that Earth’s gravity cannot constrain humanity’s dream-chasing strides.”
Sharing that outlook, on April 20 the African Space Agency was launched in Cairo, Egypt—with literally every one of Africa’s 55 nations as members. Their preparatory document from earlier this year, titled “The Stars Belong to Africa, Too,” asserted: “In a world where space has long been the playground of the West and the East, Africa is stepping forward—not just as a spectator but as a key player.”
It is this, the divine spark of creativity shared by all Mankind, that geopolitics would deny, promoting instead the mean-minded, lying view that Man is naturally selfish and is motivated only by seeking pleasure and avoiding pain, and therefore needs conflict to achieve fulfillment.
Helga Zepp-LaRouche has repeatedly argued that “geopolitics is the one thing that caused two world wars, and in the age of thermonuclear weapons, we cannot have geopolitics anymore.” As she stated in her memorable Jan. 1, 2019 New Year’s message: “I think humanity is at an historic branching point. We can shape a new era of civilization in which we overcome geopolitics for good. I ask all you to work with the Schiller Institute, so that we can win over the remaining nations that are still sticking to the old ways—especially the European nations, and get more of the peoples and nations of the world to join the New Paradigm. We can make a fantastic future if we work together.”
