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On Monday, Aug. 18, President Donald Trump hosted acting Ukrainian
President Zelenskyy and seven European leaders at the White House for
a series of meetings on ending the conflict in Ukraine, following up
on his Alaska summit last Friday with Russian President Vladimir
Putin.
In a statement following the discussions, Trump reported two
primary outcomes of those meetings: 1) moving toward a bilateral
meeting between President Putin and President Zelenskyy, followed by a
trilateral meeting including President Trump; and 2) discussions of
security guarantees for Ukraine, “provided by the various European
Countries, with a coordination with the United States of America.”
Prior to and during the meeting, those security guarantees were the
obsession of the European leaders who had scrambled to Washington to
back Ukraine as the last bastion against “the evil Russian invader.”
It isn’t known exactly what kind of security guarantees were discussed
behind closed doors, and, as with many things, the devil is in the
details. While Russia will never accept European and NATO boots on the
ground in Ukraine—especially with long-range missile capability—that
is exactly what the British have been calling for, and it is quite
unlikely that the Coalition of the Willing has so quickly suffered a
change of heart.
What is needed for the world is true security, which comes not in
preparing for war and deterring the enemy through military might, as
heard in the hyperventilating proclamations of the geopolitically
minded, warmongering European leaders; the true content of security,
and of peace, is development.
This indisputable fact rests upon the authority of natural law:
Mankind is a one—a unified species whose fundamental characteristic is
creative discovery. The maximum development of the creative capacity
of our species across the entire planet is in the best interest of
every person in every nation. This principle is enshrined in the
American Declaration of Independence as the Leibnizian “pursuit of
happiness.”
The shift in the world that began in the Aug. 15 Alaska summit
between President Trump and President Putin, away from the precipice
of confrontation between nuclear powers, must be seen against the
backdrop of the larger, tectonic shift occurring in the world order.
The geopolitical, unipolar system is over, and more and more nations
of the world, such as the BRICS+ nations, are reorganizing themselves
into new modes of cooperation and collaboration for long-overdue
development.
This was expressed in a statement by President Putin on the website
of the Vladivostok Eastern Economic Forum, whose upcoming meeting
begins September 3: “We have identified the development of the Far
East as a national priority for the entire 21st century. The
importance and correctness of this decision has been confirmed by life
itself, by the challenges we have faced recently, and, most
importantly, by the real trends that are gaining momentum in the
global economy, where the key business ties, trade routes, and in
general, the entire vector of development are increasingly reorienting
toward the East and the Global South.”
Helga Zepp-LaRouche has called for the crucial next steps to be
taken coming out of the Trump-Putin summit: President Trump must
go to Beijing for the September 3rd 80th anniversary commemoration
of the end of World War II and there meet with Presidents Xi Jinping
and Putin; to cement a new direction for the world, away from the
forever wars of the British Empire, those three Presidents must agree
to lead a new mode of economic development among nations, spearheaded
by the Bering Strait tunnel project.
In her call to those leaders to initiate what she calls the
“perfect war-avoidance policy,” Zepp-LaRouche declares: “But
there is something even more elevated you can do, by not only fighting
off the threats facing mankind, but by giving the whole world a
beautiful vision for the future. You could agree to build a corridor
across the Bering Strait, and with that rail and tunnel project unite
the rail systems of Eurasia with those of the Americas. This project
would open up for development the vast untapped resources of Siberia,
as well as the U.S. Arctic resources of oil, gas, precious metals of
all kinds, as well as fresh water. Siberia and the Russian Far East
hold the largest deposits of raw materials of all the elements which
one can find in Mendeleyev’s Periodic Table, and the joint development
of these resources, to which many other resource-poor countries could
be invited, could become the perfect war-avoidance program and greatly
enhance the prosperity of the world.”
That is true security for humanity.
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