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by Stewart Battle
June 20, 2024
from
EIR-News Website
President of Vietnam To Lam
held an
official welcoming ceremony
for Vladimir
Putin.
Credit:
kremlin.ru
The recent string of reckless
NATO escalations
in Ukraine, including the failed
"peace summit" in Switzerland, were aimed in large part at goading
Russia to react in anger, and perhaps even launch a nuclear weapon
against Ukraine, thereby eliciting global condemnation.
However, not only has Russia refused to take the
bait, but Russian officials and President
Putin in particular have now
gone on the offensive, and outflanked the Anglo-American
imperialists yet again.
During his trip to North Korea earlier this week,
Putin shocked the world when he announced that Russia's new
strategic partnership with the
D.P.R.K. included the promise to
come to the aid of the other if it is under attack, and then
proceeded to note that Russia was considering sharing its high-tech
weaponry as well.
As Russian expert Gilbert Doctorow wrote
in his blog on June 19, this announcement will even,
"wak[e] up the dullards in Washington, D.C.,
in Brussels, London and Berlin to the fact that Russia means
business, is not bluffing, and can wreak massive destruction on
U.S. and Western military assets at any moment of its choosing
if there is further escalation in the Ukraine war."
Meanwhile, the Russian President continued his
tour throughout Asia, getting the welcome of a prince in
Vietnam and signing a joint statement furthering their
comprehensive strategic partnership agreement.
This despite the fact that the U.S. exerted
enormous pressure on Hanoi to not invite Putin, and even sent an
official démarche to the government in protest.
Nonetheless, large trade deals were signed,
and the two countries are taking steps toward increasing their
cooperation.
And of course, they are increasing their moves
away from trade in U.S. dollars, now reaching 60% of
their bilateral trade in their national currencies.
But those who have followed our movement know that reaching a
ceasefire and going back to the status quo before the recent war in
Ukraine (or Gaza) had broken out, is a futile trap...
In a world where the entire system of the past
600 years is collapsing, and which in turn is spiraling
out wars as numerous as the rings of Saturn, the true path to peace
is,
to go forward to a new paradigm...
In this regard, Russia's strategic offensive
maneuvers are continuing.
As Putin made clear in
his remarks to the Russian
Foreign Ministry leadership last Friday, June 14,
a resolution to the Ukraine conflict today
must look different than it would have earlier in the conflict
or before it began.
He therefore called for a new Eurasian
security architecture which would take the interests
of every country into consideration, becoming an element of
a
new multipolar world.
Then, on Wednesday, June 19, Russia's Permanent
Representative to the UN Office in Geneva, Gennady Gatilov,
reiterated this in a speech at a conference on disarmament.
Today's Euro-Atlantic security system has
failed, Gatilov said, and in order to prevent the further
erosion of the global order,
"the President of Russia has outlined his
vision for a new security system in the Eurasian dimension,
which, as he emphasized, will effectively need to be created
from scratch."
Gatilov later added,
"We believe that the future system of
Eurasian security and cooperation should become, in our opinion,
the foundation of the architecture of global security in the era
of multipolarity."
There are no other options for getting off this
sinking ship, and the U.S. and collective West will increasingly be
faced with the decision to either,
accept collaboration with the Global
South and other nations as coequals at the world's
table, or desperately escalate toward global war.
Russian economist Sergey Glazyev, in a
recent interview, reminded people that,
the Western financial system's
bankruptcy is the cause
behind all of today's global crises, and despite the seemingly
endless supply of money-pumping it relies on, no tricks will
suffice to keep it afloat for much longer...
This system will inevitably lead to a collapse
which,
"threatens to develop into a full-scale
social and economic catastrophe," Glazyev said, and, if the U.S.
attempts to hold onto the reins of power, it will lead to a
"catastrophe on a global scale."
Every day the danger is growing, but at the same
time the lifeboat is getting bigger and more obvious.
As Helga Zepp-LaRouche has insisted since
November 2022,
a new security and development
architecture must replace the dying system of
geopolitics currently sleepwalking the world into war...
Therefore, organize to bring sanity
and leadership, before it is too late...
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