{"id":120610,"date":"2026-10-27T13:24:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T17:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/?p=120610"},"modified":"2026-10-27T14:26:05","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T18:26:05","slug":"live-dialogue-with-helga-zepp-larouche-hey-president-trump-the-clash-of-civilizations-is-for-losers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/ar\/blog\/2026\/10\/27\/live-dialogue-with-helga-zepp-larouche-hey-president-trump-the-clash-of-civilizations-is-for-losers\/","title":{"rendered":"Live Dialogue with Helga Zepp-LaRouche: Hey President Trump: The &#8220;Clash of Civilizations&#8221; Is for Losers\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Join Helga Zepp-LaRouche in her live dialogue and discuss the issues and solutions that move the world and its people. Send your questions &amp; comments to&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:questions@schillerinstitute.org\">questions@schillerinstitute.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-1 wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>Please share the YouTube link with your friends, acquaintances, and colleagues to increase the reach of the solutions presented by the LaRouche movement.<\/strong><\/em><br><br><strong>Wednesday, October 28th, 2026, 12am ET\/ 5pm CET<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hey President Trump: The &quot;Clash of Civilizations&quot; Is for Losers\" width=\"860\" height=\"645\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1H3dXiQFNV0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brazil re-elected Lula da Silva on Sunday by 4.4 million votes, a result Lula\u2019s advisor Celso Amorim <a href=\"https:\/\/noticias.uol.com.br\/colunas\/janaina-figueiredo\/2026\/10\/25\/celso-amorim-vitoria-de-lula-e-derrota-para-estrategia-de-defesa-dos-eua.htm\">called<\/a> \u201ca defeat for the United States\u2019s defense strategy in Latin America, based on the Shield of the Americas.\u201d The Brazilian stock market fell, and Fl\u00e1vio Bolsonaro refused to recognize the result. The world continues to move:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Assisi, where the Community of Sant\u2019Egidio has gathered religious leaders from every continent through Tuesday to discuss \u201cunarmed and disarming peace,\u201d Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, president of the Italian bishops and Pope Francis\u2019s envoy for Ukraine in 2023, <a href=\"https:\/\/eir.news\/2026\/10\/news\/at-assisi-zuppi-denounces-a-coarse-and-ignorant-culture-of-power\/\">named<\/a> the disease. Forty years after John Paul II first brought the religions to Assisi, \u201cwe have seen many prophets of doom\u2014those who&#8230; incite war that is always waged by others.\u201d Today \u201cthe prevailing vortex leads us to believe that rearmament is indispensable, a vortex that invariably results in further rearmament,\u201d and \u201ca coarse and ignorant culture of power\u201d has spread, discrediting the international institutions and appearing \u201cin the temptation to construct a collective identity in opposition to an enemy.\u201d Arsenals \u201cjoined with artificial intelligence, make war tragically more inhuman.\u201d Prayer, he said, \u201cis a rebellion against war, against its logic, against the many forms of complicity, against the subtle desensitization through which we grow accustomed to pain.\u201d And: \u201cOnly the unarmed can disarm.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Archbishop of Kinshasa, Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo, took aim at the maxim that justifies the arsenals, that to ensure peace a country must prepare for war. \u201cWhoever prepares for war ends up waging it,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/eir.news\/2026\/10\/news\/at-assisi-whoever-prepares-for-war-ends-up-waging-it\/\">countered<\/a>, \u201cand it is always the poor who pay.\u201d In eastern Congo, \u201cthe coltan, the cassiterite, the gold of our hills feed the war instead of feeding our children.\u201d He added a rule for those who say they want peace: \u201cA dialogue that excludes those with whom one is at war is not a dialogue: it is a monologue.\u201d The Grand Rabbi of France, Ha\u00efm Korsia, told the hall that peace must never be confused with weakness, and asked them to \u201cconvert our power into the capacity to build.\u201d A Shia scholar from Najaf and a Sunni preacher from Baghdad shared a stage, and the scholar, Jawad Al-Khoei, described the same problem in both East and West, of \u201cconverting anxiety over complex, real problems into fear of another group, and reducing the world to a simple picture of \u2018us\u2019 and \u2018them,\u2019\u201d whose extremists on each side are not interested in confronting one another, only in shrinking the space for moderates at home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, there are those more interested in the power to destroy. Two U.S. officials <a href=\"https:\/\/eir.news\/2026\/10\/news\/cnn-u-s-ready-to-strike-iran-within-96-hours-of-a-trump-order\/\">told CNN<\/a> that the forces now in the Middle East can begin \u201cpotentially major\u201d operations against Iran within 96 hours of an order from President Trump, that the target list runs to energy infrastructure, military sites and nuclear facilities, and that the order is \u201ca question of when, not if,\u201d most likely after the Nov. 3 midterms. Nonessential personnel in the next rotation have been told they are not going. In Israel, which votes Oct. 27, Channel 12 <a href=\"https:\/\/eir.news\/2026\/10\/news\/netanyahu-reportedly-clashes-with-zamir-over-attacking-iran\/\">reported<\/a> an \u201cunprecedented confrontation\u201d between Prime Minister Netanyahu and Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir over an instruction for military action that the defense establishment fears could bring on a clash with Iran before the polls close; Zamir is said to have asked for the order in writing with its legal authorization. Netanyahu called the report \u201cnonsense,\u201d and in the same interview said he had \u201cinstructed the IDF and Mossad to topple the regime.\u201d Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/eir.news\/2026\/10\/news\/trump-issues-second-endorsement-of-netanyahu\/\">endorsed<\/a> him a second time: \u201cwe have to finish the job that we started.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now look at the reshaping geometry of the region. Saudi Defense Minister Khalid bin Salman, Pakistan\u2019s army chief Asim Munir and the head of Turkish intelligence, Ibrahim Kalin, <a href=\"https:\/\/eir.news\/2026\/10\/news\/representatives-of-saudi-arabia-turkey-and-pakistan-meet-with-irans-president-and-supreme-national-security-council\/\">were in Tehran<\/a> on Monday, the three signers of the Mecca defense pact meeting President Pezeshkian and Supreme National Security Council Secretary Mohsen Rezaei in the first four-way meeting of its kind. Iran calls the idea \u201cendogenous security&#8221;: the region\u2019s states providing for their own safety rather than hosting the forces to be used against one of them. They agreed to keep talking. That is Ambongo\u2019s rule applied: parties at odds in the same room, engaged in dialogue, not monologue. And it is the answer to the \u201cidentity in opposition to an enemy\u201d that Zuppi described. The more human identity is the one we share.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The forces of peace and development have on their side the fundamental nature of the human species. What do we do when we are not preparing for war?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 1950, a child born anywhere in the world could expect to <a href=\"https:\/\/ourworldindata.org\/grapher\/life-expectancy\">live 46 years<\/a>. In 1975 it was 58; the most recent data put it at 73, which is longer than an American born in 1950 could expect. The gain did not go to the already rich. In the countries the World Bank classifies as low-income, life expectancy was 31 in 1950 and is 65 now; Ethiopia has gone from 39 to 67 since 1975, Bangladesh from 51 to 75, India from 51 to 72, Iran from 55 to 78. In France, the shortest-lived 1% of babies born in 1950 lived less than three months. For those born in 1960 it was six months; 1970, three years; 1980, 18 years; 1990, 25 years. Fewer parents bury their children, and more of us grow old with the people we went to school with. In 1950, if you collapsed with a heart attack, the doctor who reached you would give you morphine and tell you to lie still; the idea that a heart attack could be treated at all is only about 50 years old, and since the mid-1980s the share of patients who die within a month of the most severe kind has <a href=\"https:\/\/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/PMC3206855\/\">fallen by two thirds<\/a>. The people who brought about these changes did not resign themselves to disease and poverty as facts of life. They saw problems to be solved, and solved them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That is the same power that builds a refinery or a reactor, applied to fighting death itself. It is universal, and it is physically efficient. The choice is not between strength and weakness. It is between two ideas of what we are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join Helga Zepp-LaRouche in her live dialogue and discuss the issues and solutions that move the world and its people. Send your questions &amp; comments to&nbsp;questions@schillerinstitute.org. Please share the YouTube link with your friends, acquaintances, and colleagues to increase the reach of the solutions presented by the LaRouche movement. 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