June 20, 2025 (EIRNS)—“[G]eopolitics is a mental disease, because it’s not legitimate for one country or a group of countries to defend their interests against those of another group of countries by military means. You have to find the common aims of mankind and then reorder our affairs accordingly.”
This statement by Helga Zepp-LaRouche, delivered during her weekly webcast of June 18, encapsulates both the primary source of conflict in the world—that between those poor degenerates still clinging to neocolonialism and geopolitics, and the vast majority of humanity, who are no longer willing to accept a colonial system—and the solution. Now is the moment in which a new world system must be proposed based on ensuring the mutual security and development interests of all people in all nations.
The optimistic spirit of development and cooperation that such a new, creative system implies was on full display this week at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF). There, 20,000 representatives of 140 nations came together to meet, sign agreements, work out problems, and take steps to further chart a course toward mutual economic prosperity.
In his keynote address to the plenary session on June 20, Russian President Vladimir Putin addressed the tectonic change occurring in the global order: “I have already said that the global economy is undergoing the biggest large-scale transformation in recent decades. Countries of the world community are increasing their potential, changing the balance of power and the entire economic picture of the planet.” For this to continue, he said, “a fundamentally new development model is needed, built not on the rules of neocolonialism, where the so-called golden billion sucks out resources from other countries in the interests of a narrow circle of so-called elites…. Let me reiterate: the task is not to modernize the outdated mechanisms of the era of globalization—they have largely outlived their usefulness or even discredited themselves. It is necessary to propose a new model of development, free from political manipulations, taking into account the national interests of countries.”
It is quite natural and noteworthy that at and during the SPIEF, both public and private meetings took place in pursuit of a solution to the Israel-Iran conflict. Presidents Vladimir Putin of Russia and Xi Jinping of China spoke by phone and reiterated their shared commitment and ongoing efforts to bring about a peaceful, diplomatic solution; Russian and other officials shone a spotlight, in dialogue with the press, on the danger of nuclear conflagration and the urgent need for a cessation of the conflict.
While that was going on, the British only tightened the vice around U.S. President Trump. Indicative of a broader pressure campaign, a flurry of articles from British imperial media rags over the recent days urged Trump that now is the time to go for a strike against Iran: In lock step with the “Clean Break” policy, later enshrined in a 2009 Brookings Institution Report on U.S. policy toward Iran, an article in London’s The Times by British imperialist Niall Ferguson and former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant exclaim, “Israel has done most of the job—now Trump can finish it.” A Wall Street Journal article claims that Iran’s allies in the region, its “axis of resistance,” are weakened and unlikely to come to its aid.
Trump has mooted resumption of negotiations with Iran—something which the Iranians will only agree to when the bombing stops—but has also, for a second time, publicly declared his Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard “wrong” in her (and the U.S. intelligence community’s) assessment that Iran is not close to acquiring a nuclear weapon.
The only way out is by creating in nations of the West an unstoppable movement to demand, alongside our brothers and sisters of the Global South, a new world system, a new security and development architecture, based on the sovereign right of all nations and all people to develop. Such “reorder[ing of] our affairs,” as Helga Zepp-LaRouche put it, can overcome the conflict between the “West,” and the “Global Majority” by subsuming both in a common intention for the progress of humanity as a whole.
A vision for what the world could look like, under such a new paradigm, will be the subject of the Schiller Institute’s upcoming July 12-13 conference, “Man Is Not a Wolf to Man: For a New Paradigm in International Relations!” Plan to attend that conference, in person or virtually, and in the meantime, escalate and organize for the solution, like your life depends on it: It surely does.
