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The strategic situation is presently undergoing not one, but
several tectonic changes. These changes are effectively burying the
unipolar order that emerged after World War II, and then again in a
new form, after the end of the Cold War. Francis Fukuyama’s thesis of
the “end of history,” by which he meant world domination by the
Western liberal model of democracy, turned out to be one of the most
short-lived “eras” in history.
Following President Donald Trump’s return to the White House, the
trans-Atlantic relationship very quickly shattered, with a deafening
burst of noise. “The U.S. is now the enemy of the West,” screamed
London’s Financial Times, in a front-page article which
concluded: “The West is dead.” The special relationship between the
U.S. and the U.K., which was the pillar of the unipolar order, has
been broken, never to be restored.
It is now coming to light that the pro-EU forces in Europe were
allied with the very same “deep state,” sometimes called the
“permanent bureaucracy,” under attack by the Trump administration.
Vice President J.D. Vance’s remarks at the Munich Security Conference
about the lack of democratic practices in Europe struck a raw nerve in
the European “permanent bureaucracy.”
If President Trump succeeds in not only ending the Ukraine war, but
also permanently banning the species-threatening use of nuclear
weapons, through a process of cooperation and dialogue with Russia and
China, he will deserve a place on Mount Rushmore. This would mean
nothing less than replacing the practice of geopolitical confrontation
against the BRICS states and the Global South with cooperation for the
mutual benefit of all.
The second tectonic change is marked by the process in which the
nations of the Global South are presently overcoming 500 years of
colonialism with the help of China and moving to become middle-level
income countries in the near term. Instead of regarding this
development as a threat, European nations and the United States should
happily welcome the elimination of grinding poverty for billions of
people now being liberated to achieve their full potential. The only
way the danger of global nuclear war and the subsequent annihilation
of the human species can be overcome, is by cooperation with the
Global Majority.
The conference will also reflect on the life work of Lyndon
LaRouche. The LaRouche
Legacy Foundation (LLF) will present ample evidence that Lyndon
LaRouche, as early as the 1960s, had forecast the present crisis of
the liberal system with astounding accuracy. If the world had listened
to LaRouche’s analysis, and his warning of Nixon’s destruction of the
old Bretton Woods system, by the introduction of floating exchange
rates, the world would never have entered the present existential
crisis—a crisis characterized by a zooming speculative financial
bubble, collapsing physical economy, and an unquenchable drive for war
and the Schachtian militarization of the economy associated with
it.
The scientific method of LaRouche’s physical economy is most
closely approximated today by China, which is why that country is so
enormously successful, a success which can be replicated by any nation
that chooses to do so.
The major challenge facing the world as a whole, is to finally
create a just, new world economic order, and to apply the concept of
peace through development. At the conference, there will be an
important discussion of the campaign by the Schiller Institute to put
the Oasis plan, first proposed by LaRouche in 1975, on the agenda for
all of Southwest Asia. There will be a special focus on a development
plan for the African continent in line with the African
Union’s Agenda 2063, which shares the spirit of the Oasis
Plan.
We need to catapult the entire world out of the present misery of
geopolitical confrontation, out of the barbaric conception that
everything is a zero-sum game, and that one always needs an enemy. We
have reached a moment in history in which we absolutely need to reach
a new paradigm that proceeds from the idea of the one humanity first,
and then brings into cohesion the interests of all nations with that
of the one humanity. We must create a new era in human history, based
on completely new axioms, not those of the old order which has just
imploded. For that, we need a new global security and development
architecture that takes into account the existential interest of every
single nation on the planet. It is the quality of a degraded, or a
sublime character of culture, which determines how we think. The
needed new paradigm requires that we replace the present ignorance,
indifference and outright chauvinism with respect to other cultures,
with curiosity, interest, knowledge and even love for the different
cultures of the planet. The Schiller Institute conference will feature
a dialogue of cultures and civilizations, whereby the uniqueness, as
well as the universal principles uniting art, will be brought
forth.
Mankind is at its most important branching point ever. If we
continue as barbarians, we will suffer the fate of the dinosaurs and
troglodytes. But we also have hope because man is capable of the
limitless perfection of his reason and beauty of character. This must
inform our vision of the future.
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