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The world was on heightened alert on Wednesday, Dec. 17 during
President Donald Trump’s national television address. Before that
address occurred, former Fox News host Tucker Carlson had warned that
President Trump would announce a U.S. invasion of Venezuela. This was
the plan, according to a congressional source who had briefed Carlson
earlier. That threat to launch direct military actions against
Venezuela represents a significant disengagement from post-1945
international law, and a retraction of President Trump’s previously
stated commitment to “never again” launch wars illegally deposing
elected heads of state.
The 20-minute speech by Trump, however, did not even mention
Venezuela, but was instead a lavish praise of the achievements of his
administration, laden with hyperbole and outright falsehoods about the
success of the U.S. economy. War was averted, for the moment, perhaps
in part due to votes taken in the United States Congress, indicating
significant opposition to Trump’s actions.
Meanwhile, the war against “enemy” Russia in Ukraine, initiated by
the Biden administration and the collective “no-brains-trust” of the
European heads of state, has failed. The attempt by EU Commission
President Ursula von der Leyen and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz to
pressure the largely divided European Union to straight-up steal
Russia’s $300 billion in foreign deposits was squelched in a vote by
European leaders. Even Britain, “Perfidious Albion,” which has been
controlling events from behind the scenes, had to pull back from their
earlier threats to expropriate Russian assets. London’s Financial
Times quoted a U.K. government official saying: “We won’t move without
international partners.”
As stated by Helga Zepp-LaRouche in her document, “Withdraw from
NATO! New National Security Strategy Requires New Security
Architecture,” the reassessment of U.S. policy towards Russia has
opened the door for a redesign of the international security
architecture. All present or impending conflicts, such as in Ukraine,
Venezuela, Taiwan, or Southwest Asia can only be addressed by
transforming the entire international system, and rejecting
geopolitics. British ideologist Thomas Hobbes can be proven wrong:
"Man is not a wolf to man."
Statecraft, based on the concepts of independence and sovereignty,
and mutual and equal development, among nations, was the basis for
U.S. foreign policy from the beginning of our Republic. This was also
the conceptual basis of the now-largely-misunderstood and distorted
Monroe Doctrine, authored by Secretary of State John Quincy Adams
under James Monroe’s Administration. John Quincy Adams believed that
the United States must partner with the republics then emerging in
South America to form a hemispheric-wide community of principle. His
was a direct counter to the British Empire’s attempts to subvert these
republics. This idea was later applied in the case of Abraham
Lincoln’s administration, when the U.S. supported Mexican President
Benito Juarez’s efforts to repel the Hapsburg emperor Maximilian I
imposed by the British, French, and Austrians. Juarez was successful
in restoring the Mexican Republic.
Today’s discussion will focus on what true statecraft is, and how
such a community of principle can be formed today. Also, the urgent
necessity of Helga Zepp-LaRouche’s recent statement will be addressed,
and why you should endorse and circulate it.
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