May 28, 2025 (EIRNS)—“Germany is sliding down the same inclined plane on which it has already moved down to its collapse a couple of times in the last century. I hope that responsible politicians in that country will draw the right conclusion and stop the madness.”
Those were the sobering words of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in response to a reporter’s question on May 28. Lavrov was referring to the statement made earlier in the day by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, after meeting with Ukrainian acting President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Berlin, that Germany would be financing Ukraine’s ability to produce long-range Taurus and other missiles capable of striking deep into Russian territory. Merz had a few days earlier stated, even more provocatively, that Germany would itself produce Taurus missiles and send them to Ukraine for their use.
A leading Russian military analyst responded by proposing that the factory producing the Taurus in Schrobenhausen, Bavaria be flattened “with two Oreshnik missiles carrying 12 hypersonic blocks of non-nuclear warheads, so that Germany will no longer be able to build such cruise missiles in the next five to seven years. This will first be a non-nuclear strike.”
“I’m sure that the citizens of Schrobenhausen will not be very happy to hear that,” Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche stated today, “because if they are hit by Oreshnik missiles—which cannot be stopped—that would forebode great horror not only for Schrobenhausen, but subsequently probably for all of Germany and Europe.” Zepp-LaRouche went on to issue an urgent call for the people of Schrobenhausen, and others around the world, to mobilize to stop Germany from producing or sending Taurus missiles to Ukraine, to not “slide down the same inclined plane” which led to world war 80 years ago, and which this time could bring us all to the brink of a nuclear World War III.
Although the drive for war to wipe out Russia is emanating from London and other European capitals, they don’t have the military forces, the finances, nor the industry for such a daunting job—in short, without the U.S., Europe simply can’t do it. President Trump is emphatically opposed to the war policy, and has instead sought to work things out through personal conversations with Russian President Vladimir Putin. But neo-cons and other “Deep State” actors in Washington are working overtime to strategically blind Trump—who seems shockingly unaware of key strategic developments, including the fact that President Putin’s helicopter was directly targeted by Ukrainian drones over the weekend.
Lavrov was very blunt about this problem as well in his press comments today. “One thing is clear: not everything is being reported to D. Trump and those who actually make decisions in connection with the Ukrainian conflict in particular. He is being given information ‘sifted through a sieve,’ prepared by those who want to draw America into more aggressive actions against Russia in support of the Ukrainian regime.” Lavrov added drily: “We will try to correct this situation with the lack of information.”
That is much required. But in addition to good strategic information, a beautiful vision for the future of humanity is needed to chart an opposite strategy, one which is premised on the fact that the development of all nations is the only lasting basis for peace and justice. Both security and development are indivisible: they either exist for all, or they exist for none.
That is because Humanity is One, before we are Many.
