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Dec. 8, 2025 (EIRNS)—When water turns into ice, there is no change in its chemistry or substance. Nonetheless, the phase change transforms the same material into a new and completely different state. Such is the case today, as the actors on the global stage are confronted with the insanity of today’s reigning policies of war, and—whether consciously or not—are being forced to change.
The most recent spark for this has been the Trump Administration’s new National Security Strategy (NSS), which has effectively declared Europe and NATO enemies of the U.S., not fit for survival into the future. The document’s release four days ago has unleashed unprecedented hysteria from across Europe and could even be the beginning of the end of NATO. There is much that can and should be criticized about the new doctrine, most particularly the fact that it calls for a return to Thrasymachus’ definition of justice as the “advantage of the stronger.” Yet at the same time, it is a complete break with the system which emerged at the end of the Cold War and which has brought the world closer to nuclear war than at any time previously. Therefore, its demise presents an opportunity to create a new system that is more just than its predecessor, and which legitimately takes into account the interests of others.
Former Russian President and currently Deputy Chairman of Russia’s Security Council Dmitry Medvedev noted: “It feels more like an attempt to steer a massive ship that’s been moving in the same direction for ages, just by force of habit, and finally decided to change course. For the first time in many years, Washington is openly talking about restoring ‘strategic stability’ in Eurasia and rebuilding ties with Russia.”
Exemplifying the insanity of the old system, and apparently immune to Trump’s criticism, the “Coalition of the Willing” leaders of the U.K., France, and Germany gathered in London on Dec. 8 with President Zelenskyy of Ukraine to plot their next steps in continuing the war against Russia. However, Trump seems to be losing patience with the antics, and the Europeans are losing almost all support from within their own nations. “I’m a little bit disappointed” with Zelenskyy, Trump said Dec. 7. “Russia’s fine with it … but I’m not sure that Zelenskyy’s fine with it.”
At the same time, warnings are being sounded about an attack on Venezuela. Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is reportedly worried that a U.S. attack is imminent, and is working overtime to prevent one from occurring. The U.S. military has reportedly confirmed the deployment of a high-powered radar to Trinidad and Tobago that is within range of Venezuela’s shore. If the neocons in the Trump Administration are successful in initiating an attack, “that would inevitably not just be a war between the U.S and Venezuela,” said Celso Amorim, President Lula da Silva’s chief foreign policy adviser. “It would end up having global involvement.”
In discussion with associates on Dec. 8, Helga Zepp-LaRouche said that the new U.S. NSS and the response to it has created “a moment of utmost break in an order which existed in the post-Cold War period.” Zepp-LaRouche reiterated her call for NATO to be abolished, but not as an isolated step. Instead, we must force the recognition that “this whole effort to create a unipolar world after the end of the Cold War backfired tremendously”; the regime-change wars, the unilateral sanctions, unfair trade relations—all of this caused a blowback within the countries of the Global South, which increasingly saw the West as the enforcers of neocolonialism and China, for example, as offering an opportunity to finally overcome this. “Therefore, the only sensible way the world can get out of this crisis is to stop this narrow-minded thinking of geopolitical self-interest, and replace that thinking, which only leads to new conflicts and potentially even the annihilation of civilization.”
“That is why we should intervene with a concerted effort to catapult the whole debate onto the necessary level of a New Paradigm, of a new security and development architecture which must take into account every country on the planet. Otherwise it will not work.”
