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“Unbelievable indifference,” as Schiller Institute Chairwoman Helga
Zepp-LaRouche has described the behavior by most European governments,
particularly that of Germany, towards the extreme anger their actions
have created through their mislabeled “Russia-Ukraine” war, is leading
us “inevitably” to global thermonuclear conflict. Several red lines
have over the past year been crossed by Global NATO with attacks deep
into Russian territory, including the targeting of Russia’s nuclear
triad as part of “Operation Spider’s Web” on June 1, 2025, and the
attack on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s residence in Valdai on
December 28–29, 2025, which was vehemently denied by the West.
The Ukrainian attack last month on the dormitory of Starobelsk,
Lugansk, where 21 pupils aged 14-19 were killed, and yesterday’s drone
attack on St. Petersburg, Russia, timed exactly to coincide with the
yearly St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, are intended to
provoke Russia to the point of no return. These “Ukraine” developments
should also not be viewed separately from the equally dangerous
escalations taking place in Southwest Asia. There, the U.S./Israeli
war of aggression against Iran shows no indication of ending, as
Israel incessantly continues its Gaza-style bombing campaign in
Southern Lebanon.
In all conflict zones involving nuclear-empowered nations on the
planet, there is no such thing as a military solution which can bring
durable peace. The United States, in particular, must go back to its
past, and rediscover what it once promoted as a “community of
sovereign nation-states,” based on diplomacy and dialogue. That vision
was expressed by President John F. Kennedy in his commencement address
at American University, Washington D.C., on June 10, 1963.
The speech, delivered just eight months after the Cuban Missile
Crisis of October 1962 had brought the world to the brink of
thermonuclear war, sought to redefine the U.S. relationship with the
Soviet Union. It aimed to establish a common foundation for peace that
would transcend the Cold War framework—a framework that had fostered
by the British Empire, through the Dulles brothers, to replace
President Franklin Roosevelt’s postwar vision of ending imperialism,
with the apocryphal threat of threat of “expansionist Communism.”
“Useful tools,” agents advancing the British postwar outlook by
pitting nations against one another—such as CIA counterintelligence
chief James Jesus Angleton—were deployed against Kennedy during his
peace efforts, and then to cover up his assassination in the infamous
“Warren Commission” reports.
Kennedy’s speech, along with Pope John XXIII’s encyclical “Pacem in
Terris,” written on April 11, 1963, served as a critical vehicle to
Kennedy’s peace efforts then, and should be read by Americans today in
conjunction with Pope Leo XIV’s new encyclical, Magnifica
Humanitas.
“Let us examine our attitude toward peace itself. Too many of us
think it is impossible. Too many think it unreal. But that is a
dangerous, defeatist belief. It leads to the conclusion that war is
inevitable—that mankind is doomed—that we are gripped by forces we
cannot control. We need not accept that view. Our problems are man
made—therefore, they can be solved by man. And man can be as big as he
wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings. Man’s
reason and spirit have often solved the seemingly unsolvable—and we
believe they can do it again.”
Will we heed that call today? Tonight’s Fireside Chat, 9pm EDT,
will discuss that, featuring sections from John F. Kennedy’s American
University speech, Pope Leo XIV’s recent encyclical, “Magnifica
Humanitas,” or “On the Grandeur of Humanity,” and other important
speeches, which form the basis for the true American Revolution, the
250th anniversary of which we celebrate this year.
