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Live with Helga Zepp-LaRouche: End Geopolitics With LaRouche’s Oasis Plan, March 25, 12pm ET/5pm CET

March 24, 2026by tobi in Helga Webcast

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The world whipsawed again on Monday March 23 as President Trump surprised the world by announcing a halt on U.S. strikes on Iranian energy infrastructure. The U.S. and Iran “have had, over the last two days, very good and productive conversations regarding a complete and total resolution of our hostilities in the Middle East,” Trump wrote on Truth Social in all caps, adding that he had postponed strikes on Iran’s infrastructure for a five day period. Oil prices fell and stocks surged at the news.

Iran, however, denied the allegations, with Iran’s Foreign Ministry stating that “no talks are taking place between Tehran and Washington.” It added that Trump’s remarks were “part of efforts to manage energy prices and buy time for the implementation of his military plans.” When asked about this, Trump simply suggested that “perhaps that hasn’t been conveyed” because of how badly their country has been destroyed.

There are claims flying in every direction, with very little confirmed as to what, if any, diplomatic process is actually underway, or whether the whole thing is simply an inelegant way for Trump to throw his hands up and walk away. While this is a welcome reprieve in a situation that was quickly headed toward disaster, including possibly nuclear war, at best it is only a pause in a far uglier policy that is still very much alive.

The real issue was laid out by American statesman Lyndon LaRouche 20 years ago, in an article titled “Strictly Speaking, There Is No Iran Crisis.” In it, he said that the push for a regime-change war against Iran was “a continuation of the evolution of what became known as Britain’s Sykes-Picot gambits.” LaRouche continued: “That is to emphasize that the targets of ‘The Crisis on the Global Chessboard’ include Russia and China, Russia more immediately. However, the more immediate phase of the British-led game in progress, is the promotion of British Arab Bureau veteran Bernard Lewis’s revival of the global anti-Islam strategy which had been the basis for the creation and perpetuation of that medieval imperialist alliance of the Venetian financier-oligarchy and Norman chivalry, known as ‘The Crusades.’ What is in progress, currently centered in [then-British Prime Minister Tony] Blair’s and Jack Straw’s Liberal Imperialist London, is the creation of that permanent state of warfare and revolution intended to be the organizing principle of a new form of global imperialism, a form currently labeled ‘globalization.’ A global, perpetual religious war against Islam, is the British imperial policy adopted currently, for this purpose, by the Blair allies associated with the U.S. Bush-Cheney regime.”

Replace George Bush and Dick Cheney with Trump’s new brand of Silicon Valley neocons and Prosperity Gospel crusaders, as well as the ongoing role of Tony Blair in the Middle East, and the situation is clear. Add in the growing role of Palantir, which epitomizes the way this “permanent state of warfare” was necessary to implement “a new form of global imperialism,” as it simultaneously establishes both global surveillance platforms and increasingly lethal (and financially profitable) military techniques—all under the rubric of defending “our way of life” from our “adversaries.”

Yet, despite this evil and almost unfathomable level of danger, the world is perched at an absolutely unique inflection point. Nothing can “go back to normal” after this conflict is over, as is also the case after the genocide in Gaza. The world has fundamentally changed, and the moral bankruptcy of the West has been irreversibly exposed for the world to see. If growing parts of the world were not already looking for the exit from this imperialistic nightmare, you can be sure they are now. The question remains: What will replace it? Can mankind actually organize itself into a new system which doesn’t ultimately lead to a war of each against all?

There is a flurry of diplomatic activity underway throughout Southwest and South Asia, with significant nations, such as Turkiye, Egypt, and Pakistan, playing new roles in reining in this crisis by the hands of the Americans and Israelis. The recent proposal by Oman’s Foreign Minister to establish a regional framework for the transparent use of nuclear energy, is also an indication of how this region could begin to break free from the British Empire’s matrix of permanent war and geopolitics.

Speaking to associates on March 23, Helga Zepp-LaRouche summed up the opportunity before us in the following way: “I think it is really up to us to say that this present course of events, even if this goes back and forth by the day, it has to be taken off the table entirely, and it has to be replaced … with the idea of a total change in the direction of the Oasis Plan, and an Oasis Plan being expanded to the entire region, from India to the Mediterranean, from the Caucasus to the Gulf. Because this region includes many countries that have been victimized by the interventionist wars in the last decades, including Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Lebanon, Palestine, and the West Bank. The entire region is now in shambles, given the fact that the business model of the Gulf states, being on the one side extremely wealthy from their oil income, but having no in-depth state. Their populations are very small, all the work is being done by guest workers, and being protected by the U.S. military bases. This business model is now in shambles, and therefore it would be in the vested interest of these Gulf states to use the money of their sovereign wealth funds to invest in regional infrastructure programs … desalination of large amounts of ocean water, [building] canals and systems of irrigation—creating a greening of the desert like China has done in the case of Xinjiang and in the northeast, where they greened a desert the size of the territory of Germany, where now there are forests and farmland and orchards and tourism, and people have become wealthy rather than being dirt poor.

“So that approach has to be put on the table…. And if all relevant forces would work together, the Sunnis and the Shi’ites cooperating, rather than being played according to colonial scripts since Sykes-Picot and earlier, creating a clash of civilization, they should unite and go for peaceful development. That is our unified approach, and the United States should be convinced that that is in the best interest of the United States as well.”

We Must Give Young People Hope

March 22, 2026by tobi in International Peace Coalition

International Peace Coalition Meeting No. 146

March 21, 2026 (EIRNS)—Helga Zepp-LaRouche, the founder of the Schiller Institute and initiator of the International Peace Coalition (IPC ), started the 146th consecutive Friday weekly meeting of the IPC on March 20 by challenging the audience to help stop the dangerous, “breakneck speed” of a spiral into the Iran War, chaos, and the very real potential for nuclear war. Following Israel’s bombing of the South Pars off-shore natural gas field in the Persian Gulf which Iran shares with Qatar, Iran is retaliating in the war by attacking oil and gas facilities of neighboring Gulf states hosting U.S. military bases. This is contributing to the oil price shock that could seriously risk a blowout of the world financial system. The United States is moving ground troops into the region which could target disputed islands off the coast of Iran and the United Arab Emirates. Saudi Arabia is threatening to join the war, but the three main actors have incompatible goals—the United States wants regime change, Israel wants total destruction of Iran, and Iran insists that the United States must leave the region and pay reparations for the damage from the war and many years of destructive sanctions. Zepp-LaRouche saw hope in the recent call by Foreign Minister of Oman Badr Albusaidi—who was in the midst of mediating U.S.-Iranian negotiations when the United States and Israel launched their “unlawful military strike” against Iran—for a meeting of all countries in the region to move towards a regional non-aggression treaty, pivoted on an agreement on developing nuclear energy, as a pathway out of the ongoing unwinnable war. China’s special envoy for Middle East affairs Zhai Jun is in the region and has been promoting a quick end to the fighting and economic development.

In Europe, Zepp-LaRouche noted the reluctance of Europeans to join the war. Europe has offered to send warships to the Strait of Hormuz, but only after the fighting ends. She also noted that Iran’s Ambassador to Germany Majid Nili Ahmadabadi has been asking about the role of the United States at the Ramstein Air Base, suggesting that Germany is complicit in the war. She spoke of Prime Minister of Japan Sanae Takaichi visiting the White House on March 19 and being subjected to a cruel joke about Pearl Harbor, when a reporter asked President Trump why the United States did not give Japan advanced warning about their intent to start the war against Iran.

Zepp-LaRouche noted that the former head of the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center, Joseph Kent, has said that the FBI has blocked investigations into the shooting death of prominent conservative activist Charlie Kirk, and the July 2024 assassination attempt against President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania. Kent has warned that there may be live, ongoing assassination plans against the President. Meanwhile, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has warned that the U.S. effort to militarize and control space is a dangerous escalation. She noted that all of these events could easily go out of control, and stressed the need for negotiations, development, and a dialogue of civilizations. She also noted that Pope Leo XIV is an American and in a unique position to bring other religious leaders together to prevent a descent into barbarism.

The next speaker was Josephine Guilbeau, a 17-year U.S. Army veteran from U.S. Cyber Command and now active with the Eisenhower Media Network. Guilbeau spoke of her attendance at the Catholics For Catholics 3rd annual Catholic Prayer for America event in Washington, D.C. on March 19, where Joseph Kent spoke and received multiple standing ovations. She stressed that the USS Tripoli, with over 2,000 Marines, is just five days away from entering the theater of war, and that Americans must act now to avoid another ground war with no “off ramp.” Guilbeau called on Americans to contact their congressional representatives and send letters to the editors of major newspapers to stop the war, saying that we cannot allow Israel to drag us into another bloodbath. Zepp-LaRouche responded by stressing the importance of mobilizing other Catholics around the world to unite in opposition to the war. Guilbeau announced the Eisenhower Media Network sponsored March 26 press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., which will expose how, as in the Iraq war, contradictory or even non-existent intelligence has been used to dupe a U.S. President into the war on Iran.

Speaking next was Bassam El Hachem, a sociologist and professor at the University of Lebanon, who spoke of the delusion dominating the Trump administration that the war against Iran could be won in four or five days through decapitation. He said that this “adventure” was a failure, and it is now Iran which holds all of the cards. Iran has knocked-out the major U.S. radar systems in the region, forced the two U.S. aircraft carriers to pull back, and it controls the flow of 20% of world oil exports. Without its sophisticated radar, the United States is blind and Iran’s missiles have inflicted damage. President Trump has demanded that his “allies”—the same ones he has threatened with draconian tariffs—help him restore oil and gas shipments through the Strait of Hormuz, to little effect.

Professor El Hachem noted that at the end of 2024 Israel and Lebanon negotiated an end to the fighting, Hezbollah honored the agreement, but Israel did not: It acted unilaterally to continue the killing. The United States was negotiating with Iran, but in the middle of the negotiations the U.S. acted unilaterally and started the war. He said that there has been a media blackout, but the U.S. makes sure that Lebanon is weak, which means that Hezbollah is the only local force which can respond to this fighting.

The professor continued that for three days Israel has been preparing for a ground invasion of Lebanon, giving Hezbollah no choice but to fight. France has worked to negotiate an end to this fighting, but the professor does not expect this to work.

The final invited speaker was Diane Sare, an independent candidate for U.S. President, who asked if it were possible to end these wars without changing America? She said that only Congress can declare war, but this Congress embarrassed itself by abdicating its responsibilities, allowing the war to begin.

Sare called on whistleblowers and independent-minded candidates to unite to break the brainwashing by the billionaire elite which wants to dumb-down the population to eliminate optimism. Sare said that the peace movement must fight for economic development, eradicate poverty, provide clean drinking water for the world, and build nuclear power for a growing world. This peace movement must act as one humanity and promote a dialogue of civilizations.

A short video interview was shown of Chandra Muzaffar, a prominent Malaysian human rights activist, author, and president of the International Movement for a Just World (JUST), who has called to end all hegemony. He suggested the importance of mobilizing individuals of faith, such as Mahatma Gandhi or Lyndon LaRouche—instead of appealing to religious institutions. Gandhi and LaRouche were people of faith, even though they did not always fit in with the rituals of institutional religious structures, both challenged us with what gives meaning to our lives or what we should do with our lives. Muzaffar said that in a time of crisis, this is the spiritual perspective that we need.

Zepp-LaRouche responded saying the elites are willing to waste precious lives as collateral damage. President Trump has said that he can do with Cuba whatever he wants. She said that we are already in a “Dark Age,” but she is worried that we are sliding into barbarism. She repeated her husband’s frequent question: Do we have the moral fitness to survive? Can we work for the benefit of others? Can we have a dialogue of civilizations? History has shown that arrogance has always led to destruction and we will not survive an Armageddon.

Sare added that people are naturally good and that we can see signs of resistance to this barbarism. Schools are prohibiting smartphones in classrooms, and promoting more reading instead of more screen time. Professor El Hachem added that students of all faiths are acting to stop the war, and he said that it is critical that “we must give young people hope.”

During the question period Sare warned of the danger of false flag provocations to expand the war. She said that President Trump has retreated in Yemen and Minneapolis while declaring defeats to be victories, and that she would be happy if he does the same thing in the Iran War.

A short video was played of former CIA analyst Larry Johnson arguing that nuclear weapons did not end World War II and they will not end the current conflicts. Zepp-LaRouche warned that wars never go as planned and warned of the danger of the unpayable $2.4 quadrillion financial derivatives bubble. She said the only way out of these problems is economic development, but the United States insists on dominating the world despite the fact that it represents only a small fraction of the world’s population. The Global South represents 90% of the world and it demands equality and will not accept an inferior position. Zepp-LaRouche added that Gulf states have shown what is possible in the middle of the desert, but instead of more luxury hotels, these nations must unite around an Oasis Plan development strategy. She said that China developed two of its poor desert areas, each the size of Germany in its northern and western regions—and turned them into lush gardens. There is no need for death and misery anywhere in the world.

Zepp-LaRouche said that the “American System” of economics demonstrates that credit for production always produces more value than the sum of the individual investments. China’s most favorite economist is Friedrich List, who promoted this same system. This “American System” was opposed to the British model of merely extracting value from trade. She called on the United States to return to its mission of being a “Beacon of Hope” for the world again, and that America should not go abroad “in search of monsters to destroy,” as called for by John Quincy Adams.

Live with Helga Zepp-LaRouche: “Blessed are the Peacemakers” — Defend Christianity from the Armageddon Freaks, March 18, 11am ET/4pm CET

March 17, 2026by tobi

The live dialogue will be broadcasted at 11am ET / 4pm CET due to change to Daylight Savings Time in the US.

Lyndon LaRouche, the American philosopher and worldly statesman, once posed the question, “How much does a thought weigh?”

Ask yourself: What kind of substance and causal reality does an appropriate thought have on the material world? And does engaged dialogue amongst cultures and amongst nations actually play a role in averting physical disaster, when greed, pettiness, fears, cynicism, vengeance, outright meanness of spirit or any volatile mixture of such seem to take the upper hand in driving the world into senseless violence, killings, and war?

On March 3, in the 144th weekly session of the International Peace Coalition dialogue, the exchange of ideas prompted IPC founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche to issue on March 9 an open call upon Pope Leo XIV to sound a clear trumpet call to rally various religions, cultures, and heads of government to respond to the “might makes right” abandonment of law and morality, and to initiate the real world steps for a new international security and development architecture.

On March 15, the American-born Pope issued a call for an immediate ceasefire in Iran and, as Zepp-LaRouche summarized the developments over the last day: “[S]hort of responding to our campaign, the open letter to the Pope, nevertheless there are a lot of statements that have come from church circles, Vatican circles, all absolutely, massively condemning this war. State Secretary Cardinal Parolin rejected the claim that this is a preventive war, by saying that they keep the dialogue open, but that this is not a preemptive war. Cardinal McElroy, Archbishop of Washington, said the war is morally unjustifiable. Chicago Cardinal Cupich said it was sickening how the White House was splicing video game imagery into social media messaging about the war…. The head of the Italian Bishops’ Conference called on all religions to seek bold solutions to war, and even the German Cardinal Marx, who is the Archbishop of Munich and former head of the German Bishops’ Conference, sharply criticized the attack by Israel and the U.S., saying that according to Catholic social teaching, this is an illegitimate war and cannot be accepted. This is quite important because normally the German Catholic Church is always more close to the government, and they never stick their neck out like that. But he called on people not to resign themselves to this. He said, we must not allow ourselves to be discouraged. Now more than ever, we must be involved both as church and individual citizens. Now that is very important.”

Today Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the Israeli military to occupy southern Lebanon, move almost a million citizens from their homes, and carry out a “security” mission there, modelled upon what was carried out in Gaza the last two years. U.S. President Donald Trump, asked whether he knew about this plan, admitted that he did, then stumbled around saying that it had to be done to destroy Hezbollah and that it had nothing to do with most of the population.

Over the weekend, Trump had claimed U.S. air strikes had “totally demolished” much of the Kharg Island oil export hub, but added: “We may hit it a few more times just for fun.” Not one of the countries he called upon to join him in sending warships to free the Straits of Hormuz has agreed. When Britain’s Prime Minister Starmer made his refusal, he reported: “I said to them: We will remember.” China responded by telling Trump to simply stop the unnecessary war and the Straits of Hormuz would be re-opened. At every turn, he issues new threats, as a King Canute ordering the ocean waves to cease. And now, his public behavior has become a major subject of public discussion around the world.

When the emperor is naked, the little boy’s innocent question—”Why is that man wearing no clothes?”—has a massively therapeutic effect on the whole population, one that had been spending so much effort damaging their own minds and spirits, so as not to say the obvious. Ideas deployed properly, when it looks like nothing works, is what works. This is what separates Zepp-LaRouche’s conclusion today from merely naive optimism:

“So I think we are well positioned to fight for a breakthrough. A breakthrough being that we have to absolutely get the new security and development architecture on the agenda, because only if we move people into a new paradigm of axioms of thinking, where we overcome geopolitics, do we have a chance to break out of it.”

The thought that humanity is made in the image of God, with a divine spark of reason, capable of necessary and creative interventions into the world, is arguably the most weighty substance in the universe.

“With the Pen and the Word, it is Possible to Neutralize the Effects of Guns”

March 15, 2026by tobi in General, International Peace Coalition

Report on IPC #145, by EIR staff

The 145th consecutive online weekly meeting of the International Peace Coalition (IPC) featured a surprise guest, Ambassador Abolfazl Pasandideh who represents the Islamic Republic of Iran in Mexico. This was a unique opportunity for people who live in an environment dominated by war propaganda, to hear an unfiltered message from the nation the U.S. government is attacking.

Helga Zepp-LaRouche, Schiller Institute founder and IPC initiator provided an update. She posed the question, Why did U.S. President Donald Trump start this war? Reportedly, it was U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, U.S. Secretary of State/National Security Advisor Marco Rubio, U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, and the president’s son-in-law Jared Kushner who convinced him that Iran was on the verge of attacking U.S. forces or bases. She noted that we have reached a new phase in neocon aggression, typified by targeted eliminations of heads of state, such as the kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro or the assassination of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. She added that this situation can still escalate to nuclear war, citing an editorial in The Hill by Harlan Ullman, senior adviser at the Atlantic Council, who bills himself as the principal author of the doctrine of shock and awe. Ullman suggests that the United States nuke Iran as the only way to achieve the requisite shock and awe. Zepp-LaRouche also reported on her Letter to Pope Leo XIV, calling on him to intervene in the spirit of Nicholas of Cusa’s De Pace Fidei. It has come to her attention that a ranking Shiite cleric from Iran, Ayatollah Seyed Mostafa Mohaghegh Damad Ahmadabadi, has issued a similar appeal to the Pope. She concluded by saying, “The danger to humanity, in my view, has never been more grave than right now.”

Ambassador Abolfazl Pasandideh spoke next, called the present war “one of the most irrational wars in history… a betrayal of diplomacy. For the second time, we were attacked in the middle of negotiations… It was a blatant symbol of the use of power in the place of international law.” It was expected that the internet would usher in an age of humanism, he said, but instead, racists and radical nationalists have successfully exploited the internet. On the topic of the neocon “regime change” agenda, he said, “It is not clear who will be next after Iran—Mexico, or China?” He ended on an optimistic note: “With the pen and the word, it is possible to neutralize the effects of guns.”

Zepp-LaRouche described the motives of the IPC for inviting the Iranian ambassador: we have observed the discrepancy between reality, and the narrative being promoted by Western sources. She recalled the declaration by U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent, that the United States had intentionally engineered the collapse of the Iranian economy in order to trigger regime change, and referred also to Trump’s former Director of the CIA in his first administration Mike Pompeo’s tweet about the Mossad agents accompanying each Iranian demonstrator.

Former President of Guyana (2011-2015) Donald Ramotar conveyed to the Ambassador his admiration for the tenacity and courage of the Iranian people in the face of the attempts to destroy their nation. For some time now, he said, there has been an effort to destroy international institutions and international law. Iran is under attack because it is the only country standing up for the Palestinians, and because it is the main obstacle to Israel’s efforts to re-shape the Middle East. Iran’s fight is also a fight for Cuba, which is now under “almost unbearable” economic pressure in a similar mad attempt to incite regime change.

Pasandideh said that he wishes to thank Zepp-LaRouche for going to the “roots of this problem.” He thanked Ramotar for his expression of solidarity.

Father Harry Bury, a catholic priest for 70 years, a lifelong peace activist, and active in the Twin Cities Nonviolent and the U.S. Catholic Priest Association spoke, saying “Our hearts are breaking, truly breaking, at what is happening to Iran,” he said. “Jesus said that we are to love our enemies!” He stressed that history has shown us that violence does not resolve problems. He reiterated his endorsement of the Oasis Plan and the BRICS as an exemplary approach to peace. He asked all participants to add their names to Zepp-LaRouche’s open letter to the Pope.

Pasandideh responded by saying Bury’s beautiful words had touched his heart. He offered his view that Donald Trump is hiding behind religion, and this is an aggression against all religions.

Jack Gilroy, of Veterans for Peace, Pax Christi – Upstate NY, and Pax Christi International, commented on the contrast between what Father Bury is saying, and the endorsement of violence by the Christian Zionists. The stance of the Christian Zionists flies in the face of the non-violent message of Christ and the Jewish commitment to justice.

Pasandideh responded again that if we search for the origins of these problems, we find unilateralism. The UN Charter established a world based on laws and rights to say “never again” to the injustice that had led to World War II, and now these precepts are being ignored. He asked how can we return to multilateralism, which would rule out regime change operations. When we achieve multilateralism, we accept the cultural differences among nations.

Zepp-LaRouche recalled the role of President of Iran Mohammad Khatami, who brought about a revival of culture and the introduction of modern technologies to Iran.

Discussion

Gilroy called U.S. foreign policy “perverse,” substituting gunboat diplomacy for real diplomacy. He said that we must call upon religious leaders to preach the truth like Father Bury does. There are 20 million Christian Zionists in the United States, which is why the Israeli flag is flying over the White House. Where are the religious leaders who say we must stop murdering fishermen in the Caribbean?

Nuclear weapons expert Dr. Theodore Postol, Professor Emeritus of Science, Technology and National Security at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in a video contribution, said the Iranians may be able to continue the war for a very long time, manufacturing drones in underground facilities. The United States is unable to manufacture interceptors at a pace that can match Iranian drone production. And the interceptors are not working, they are unable to perform their functions as advertised.

A question was sent in for Father Bury: what can Catholics do about those in South America and elsewhere who reduce their faith to mere ideological anti-communism? He replied that we must educate ourselves, and then educate other people.

Diane Sare reminded the participants that she is an independent U.S. presidential candidate. She noted that nearly two thirds of the U.S. population are unable to read above a sixth-grade level. The key to deaf and blind Helen Keller’s liberation from her sensory prison was language. Sare noted that Ultimate Fighting Championship fighters are now training the FBI. Our U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and FBI agents need to be able to think, instead of being mindlessly violent.

A participant asked, can Israel be stopped from using nuclear weapons on Iran? Co-moderator Dennis Speed warned that the Jeffrey Epstein Class is not restrained by moral limits. They believe themselves to be above them; they are essentially Satanic. This mentality must be exposed and confronted in order to stop the use of nuclear weapons. Speed recalled that according to Russian intelligence, France and Britain are plotting to bring nuclear weapons to Ukraine.

Congressional candidate in New York’s 15th congressional district (Bronx), Jose Vega reported on his campaign’s petition drive to achieve ballot status, knocking on over 4,500 doors over the past few weeks and bringing a message of peace through development.

See the full transcript here.

Live with Helga Zepp-LaRouche: To Achieve Peace, Think Like Cusa, March 11, 11am ET/4pm CET

March 10, 2026by tobi in Helga Webcast

The live dialogue will be broadcasted at 11am ET / 4pm CET due to change to Daylight Savings Time in the US.

Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche today released an open letter to Pope Leo XIV, which began by explaining her purpose in addressing the Pontiff: “I am writing to you at this grave hour of mankind, since you may be the only person left who could hopefully avoid a descent into what you yourself called an ‘irreparable abyss…’” She went on to stress the imminent danger posed by the rapidly expanding Iran war.

Over the past 48 hours, despite wishful thinking to the contrary, the Strait of Hormuz has been closed to oil tankers, and energy supplies are suffering major disruption, as the U.S. and Israel carry out sustained, massive strikes on Iran. The Malthusian (aka ‘Satanic’) masters behind these policies measure their “success” in terms of closing down physical production, modern standards of sanitation and longevity, and the institution of sovereign nations. And for them, shutting down energy supplies is a long step in that direction. These are the super-decadent “Epstein Class,” who abide in a fantasy world populated only by objects of their depredation

Look at Central Europe. Today, Hungary called upon the EU’s Brussels gang to face reality, and drop the ban on Russian oil and gas. Slovakia’s Prime Minister Peter Fico warned that the gang’s “ruthless, crude violation” of international law has unleashed the type of recklessness of Ukraine’s Zelenskyy, in making a public call for the assassination of Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban. Such a state of mind, Fico warned, could easily have Zelenskyy pull a Nord Stream 2.0, destroying the famous Druzhba oil pipeline from Russia to Europe.

The same disease is taking over the United States. Thirty U.S. congressmen stood up and called out the ‘Armageddonist’ infection gripping various military commanders, starting from the end-of-the-world psychopath, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. President Trump continues to work in close tandem with Hegseth on Iran, telling the media that last week’s bombing of the Iranian girl’s school, in a “double-tap” attack – a war crime – was carried out by… Iran! Yet, later in the day, Trump proceeded to call Russian President Putin to discuss the crisis in Iran. While the specifics of which have not been made public at this time, Trump suggested that they should renew their pledge to consult more regularly.

Zepp-LaRouche’s letter to Pope Leo XIV intervened into this rapidly worsening global crisis with a direct call to action. “I am writing to you at this grave hour of mankind, since you may be the only person left who could hopefully avoid a descent into what you yourself called an ‘irreparable abyss,’ an escalation of the unprovoked war against Iran into potentially a global nuclear war, which would end all life on earth.

“In the recent period, the world has entered a radically worse phase, where international law has been declared nonexistent… and the principle of ‘might makes right’ is being elevated to be the privilege of the powerful.”

Needless poverty and death have resulted, yet, even worse, nuclear annihilation is staring humanity in the face. “Something that could be a positive, maybe even the decisive step to arouse the consciousness of the world, would be—in the spirit of the Council of Florence and the unity of the church brought about by Nicholas of Cusa, bringing the delegations of the Orthodox Church to the Councils of Florence and Ferrara—that you, your Holiness, and Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, as well as Patriarch Bartholomäus I of Constantinople, would take the courageous step and call together for all religious leaders of the world, as well as all people of good faith, believers and non-believers alike, to step forward in defense of peace.”

Referring to the Pope’s own call last fall for the “coincidence of opposites” method of thinking and acting, originally proposed by the Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa after the 1453 fall of Constantinople threatened to turn worshippers of one God into vicious factional warriors against each other, Zepp-LaRouche stated: “At a time when there is the danger of a world war, and when some use the cloak of religion to argue for an early Armageddon, that same voice of reason must be raised … that it cannot be that people kill each other in the name of God.”

She concluded: “If, as a first step, the Churches of the West and the East would unite and campaign actively and daily for world peace, this could affect the majority of people to express their commitment for peace and thus cause a change in world history and fulfill the will of God, who for sure did not create the world and gift humanity with reason, to have it destroyed by the lack of it.”

Zepp-LaRouche Calls on Pope Leo XIV To Intervene on the Level of Nicholas of Cusa

March 10, 2026by tobi in General, Helga statement, article, transcript

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The following statement was issued March 9 by Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder of the Schiller Institute, for immediate and widespread international circulation and endorsement. We encourage signatures of endorsement from religious leaders of all faiths, as well as from people of good faith, to urgently develop the dialogue of civilizations needed for world peace.

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Holy Father,

I am writing to you at this grave hour of mankind, as you may be the only person who could hopefully avoid a descent into what you yourself have called an “irreparable abyss,” an escalation of the unprovoked war against Iran into potentially a global nuclear war, which would end all life on Earth.

The world has now entered a radically worse phase, in which international law has been declared nonexistent; the so-called “rules-based order” declared as always having been a charade; and the principle of “might makes right” elevated to be the privilege of the powerful. As a result, billions of people are suffering a dramatic worsening of their living conditions, and countless people are paying with their lives. But still worse, if the present course of events is not changed, the ultimate sin may be committed: the annihilation of the human species for the sake of satanic delusions.

Millions of ordinary people, in total despair, are asking: What can be done to change the course of history, when many governments, especially in the West, are obviously incapable of fulfilling their obligation to avoid damage to the people for whom they are responsible? Where are the institutions that can bring the remedy at this late hour?

Something that could be a positive, maybe even decisive step to arouse the consciousness of the world—in the spirit of the 1439 Council of Florence, and Nicholas of Cusa’s idea of unity of the church, bringing delegations of the Orthodox Church to the Councils of Florence and Ferrara—, would be for you, your Holiness, together with Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, and Patriarch Bartholomäus I of Constantinople, to take a most courageous step. Together, call for all religious leaders of the world, as well as all people of good faith, believers and non-believers alike, to step forward in defense of peace.

Last year, on October 25^th. in your Angelus sermon, you evoked the great philosopher and Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa and his notion of the Coincidentia Oppositorum, as the necessary method of thinking to bind things together in the world today. It was that same method of thinking which underlay Cusa’s beautiful dialogue “De Pace Fidei,” about “peace in faith,” which he wrote in answer to the fall of Constantinople in 1453. That dialogue served to uplift the thinking of the people of his time to the highest possible level—that despite distinct rites and practices, there is a knowable understanding that there is only one God, and one truth, which can, and must, be brought to believers of all faiths

At a time when there is the danger of a world war, and when some use the cloak of religion to argue for an early Armageddon, that same voice of reason must be raised, and the same question asked, as did the representatives of 17 nations and religions ask God in “De Pace Fidei.” It cannot be that people kill each other in the name of God.

The bells of all churches should begin to ring, the Adhan of all mosques should be shouted, the Shofar of all synagogues should be blown, in the whole world in this moment of utmost urgency to save mankind from its final tragedy.

If, as a first step, the Churches of the West and the East would unite and campaign actively and daily for world peace, this could affect the majority of people to express their commitment for peace and thus cause a change in world history, fulfilling the will of God, who for sure did not create the world and gift humanity with reason, to have it destroyed by the lack of it.

Helga Zepp-LaRouche

Founder, Schiller Institute

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U.S. Plans Disintegrating

March 9, 2026by tobi in International Peace Coalition

Report on International Peace Coalition, Week 144

The 144th weekly meeting of the International Peace Coalition (IPC) featured leaders from the United States, Germany, Mexico, Brazil, France, and Lebanon, describing the horror of the war policy in Iran, Lebanon, and beyond, and expressing hope and support for the effort of the IPC and the Schiller Institute to create a new architecture for peace and development for all nations. Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder of the Schiller Institute and initiator of the IPC, opened the meeting with an overview of the seven days so far of war on Iran, and the disintegration of the Western financial system, aggravated by the cut-off of energy supplies from the Gulf region, due to the war. She identified U.S. President Donald Trump’s psychosis in saying that he doesn’t care about international law, and especially saying that he should choose the new Iranian leader. She pointed to the reports from the Military Religious Freedom Foundation that the U.S. military command is telling soldiers that God has ordained this war and has ordained Trump to lead it, and warned that this administration appears to be controlled by a type of fundamentalist lunacy. She noted that Pope Leo XIV and other Catholic clerics have spoken out against the war, and that the Global South recognizes that the war is not only against Iran, but against the Global South altogether, centered on the BRICS and the Belt and Road Initiative.

Col. Richard Black, a former Marine as well as an Army JAG officer who headed the Criminal Law Division at the Pentagon, pledged his support to the members of the armed forces, but added that, as a Christian, he wanted to remind those officers who believe in the “Great Awakening” that Christ said, “Blessed are the peacemakers.” The war on Iran has “no justification,” he insisted, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu had fooled the Trump Administration with two lies: that Iran had nuclear weapons and that the Iranian people would rise up against the leadership within weeks. Black noted that no demonstrations in Iran of even 100 people had spoken up against the regime. “Americans are not good at looking at things from others’ eyes,” he added.

The closure of the Straits of Hormuz would deeply harm the Asian countries, noted Black, including U.S. allies such as South Korea and Japan. Iran, he added, is a highly developed nation, with a deep and rich culture. A ground invasion would be a disaster for the United States, he said, but Trump’s demand for “unconditional surrender” would require ground troops. He denounced the killing of the “aging leaders” of the country, but said that this would lead to a new generation of “younger, more dynamic leaders.”

Sexual Predators and the War Machine

María de los Ángeles Huerta del Río, a former member of Congress in Mexico, who also attended EIR’s March 2 Roundtable of “World Citizens,” described the war on Iran as a “war of Israel against the opponents of the genocide in Gaza.” You can see the “devil in the eyes” of those engaged in sexual predation and the war machine. She then proposed five points of action:

Develop a network of activists to investigate the money flow of the banks. Discover which corporations and financial havens are connected to the production of war, drug and weapons trafficking, money laundering, and the sexual predators in the Jeffrey Epstein files. The purpose is to create a public list to shame those involved.
Investments: We must go after the investments made by those depraved institutions, banks and individuals identified.
Global observance to denounce the elites. This can be done in three ways: 1) Investigate all the cases from the Gaza massacre to the Epstein Island. 2) Political and legal battle to move the institutions to do their job in bringing to justice those identified. 3) Generate a “Library of Infamy” that archives all findings and is public and accessible to journalists.
Cultural performances and demonstrations to bring attention to the institutions and people involved in the depravity.
Develop a protection network to support those who are fighting for peace.

Dr. Beatriz Bissio, an Associate Professor of Political Science in Brazil, backed the proposals of Ms. Huerta, and added her own proposals: Don’t allow the World Cup to be held in the United States this year; move the UN out of the United States; and an international meeting of sovereign states for a new security and development architecture, as called for by Helga Zepp-LaRouche, should be held, but not in the United States. Bissio added that the aggression against Iran was illegal, and that it should be seen as an Israeli war on those who opposed the genocide in Gaza. She noted a letter from Dubai-based billionaire Khalaf al-Habtoor asking U.S. President Donald Trump, “Who gave you permission and authority to turn our region into a battlefield?”

François Martin, a French intelligence strategist, said the Iran war is a “war of humanity against un-humanity.” The killing of 168 little girls was not a mistake but was prepared and organized by those who believe that Iranians “are all sinners, and should not be considered human, but like ants or rats.” The killing of women and children is thus justified. The same is true of the 87 sailors killed by the March 4 U.S. torpedoing of an unarmed Iranian ship off the coast of Sri Lanka. “We must be human,” he insisted. He believes the war will not last long, based on the fact that Netanyahu lied to the United States and President Trump that the Iranians had nuclear weapons and that the Iranian people would rise up within weeks. Trump is amazed at the Iranian response, he said, and as more Americans are killed, he will be in a very difficult position.

Bassam El-Hachem, a sociologist professor at the University of Lebanon, presented a little-reported situation in Lebanon, and focused especially on the lie that Hezbollah is a terrorist group controlled by Iran. He, himself, is a Christian, but he noted that Hezbollah came into being against the Israeli occupation of Lebanon in the 1980s. Iran’s assistance to Hezbollah exists for that reason. A ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah was strictly followed by Hezbollah, but not by Israel, he said. Lebanon, he added, is under “crushing control” from the United States, which has a large military presence in the country. El-Hachem expressed his friendship with, and support of, Helga Zepp-LaRouche and the late Lyndon LaRouche, whom he had visited in prison in the 1990s.

Nuremberg Crimes Must Be Prosecuted

In the open discussion session, co-moderator Dennis Speed noted that François Martin’s point that the slaughter of girls and innocent sailors by the United States recalled a 1970s campaign by EIR and LaRouche’s organization called “Operation Nuremberg,” which addressed the “Nazi doctors” who treated patients as animals to be experimented on. Martin agreed, insisting that such crimes must be identified and prosecuted. “We must make the savages afraid,” he said. Mrs. Zepp-LaRouche added that there was essentially no Western comment on these blatantly satanic slaughters, and that the United States was “losing all moral credibility in the world.”

A participant from Spain suggested that Pope Leo XIV and the Church of Rome join forces with the Russian-based Orthodox Church in organizing resistance to the war. Helga responded that the Schiller Institute had called, back in the last century, on all religious leaders—Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Buddhist, and others—to come together against the permanent war policies and for a new architecture for peace and development for all nations, and that it is still necessary today.

Jonathan Thron of the German Schiller Institute described and showed pictures of the multiple demonstrations of students across Germany against the wars and against the campaign of the government to introduce a draft into the military. He said that there is growing support for this effort but that demonstrations were smaller this time than the first ones in December, due to extreme measures to stop them, which included school principals threatening to prevent participation in college entrance exams for those who protested; by fines imposed on those joining the demonstrations; and even by police preventing students from leaving the schools.

Dennis Speed noted Prof. El-Hachem’s cooperation with the LaRouche movement in the 1980s and ’90s, and called for him to grant interviews to EIR. El-Hachem enthusiastically agreed, and Zepp-LaRouche, EIR editor-in-chief, urged that this be done immediately.

Mrs. Zepp-LaRouche closed the meeting by noting that, like Prof. El-Hachem’s point that Lebanon was an occupied country, Germany, too, is occupied, with a dozen U.S. military bases and over 40,000 soldiers stationed there, adding that the bases were being used in the war on Iran, without requesting approval from the German government. She warned that the pending financial collapse will make the already desperate situation far worse.

Live with Helga Zepp-LaRouche: Early End to an Endless War, March 4, 11am ET/5pm CET

March 3, 2026by tobi in Helga Webcast

United States Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz stood before the UN Security Council and described Iran’s retaliatory strikes as “unprovoked.” The United States and Israel have been bombing a sovereign nation for three consecutive days, killing its leader along with dozens of senior officials, and when that nation fires back, the word chosen is “unprovoked.” This is not spin. This is the erasure of reason, the vocabulary of a hegemon that believes its actions define the law, and which expects the rest of the world to go along.

Many governments are obliging. Britain has opened its bases while insisting it is not at war. Germany’s foreign minister dismisses the relevance of international law. France declared itself “satisfied” with the killing of Khamenei. The E3 condemned Iran’s retaliation without a word about the attack that provoked it. The European Commission president called for “regime change.” Brussels, pressed to say whether the strikes were legal, pivoted to Iran’s human rights record, as though one may bomb a country without UN authorization, so long as the country is disagreeable.

One European government said no: Spain barred U.S. forces from its bases, forcing tanker aircraft to depart Rota and Morón. “Spanish military bases will not be used for anything that falls outside the agreement with the United States and the United Nations Charter,” Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares said. Israel’s foreign minister accused Spain of “standing with all the tyrants of the world.” The insult tells you more about the mockers than the mocked. Madrid has endorsed international law—something that happens too rarely today.

The goal is not to install a new government in Tehran. It is to destroy Iran’s capacity to function as a sovereign state and to send a message to any nation aspiring to strategic independence. Strip away the rhetoric and what remains is a war to prevent the emergence of a multipolar world—waged by two nuclear-armed states against a country that does not possess nuclear weapons and that, the night before the bombing began, offered, through the Omani foreign minister on American television, to accept the core nuclear terms Washington claimed to be seeking—zero reprocessing, elimination of stockpiles—with long-range missiles and regional proxies on the table to follow. According to analyst John Helmer, the sticking point was Iran’s missile program, which Tehran regarded as essential to its survival. The response was not to negotiate further, but to begin bombing, even as the envoys were still at the negotiating table in Geneva.

The energy infrastructure of the Persian Gulf is under attack, European gas prices have spiked 50%, and the Strait of Hormuz is closed to navigation. Israel is bombing Lebanon again. Iran’s own foreign minister has acknowledged that military units are operating on pre-set instructions without centralized command. Retired U.S. Lt. Col. Daniel Davis, a four-time combat veteran, has warned that American interceptor stocks may last only two to three weeks, while Iran has spent decades stockpiling weapons underground and can reportedly still produce 100 missiles per month under sanctions. And the question that hangs over everything is whether Israel will resort to nuclear weapons if Iran’s missile forces survive—not a hypothetical, if Helga Zepp-LaRouche’s account is correct, that Netanyahu has already communicated to Trump that Israel regards Iranian missiles as existential and may act with or without American agreement.

Zepp-LaRouche called on citizens in every country to demand that their governments cease all military actions and return to diplomacy, invoking the Peace of Westphalia, the 1648 settlement that ended the Thirty Years’ War, because the warring parties recognized that the only path to peace included fostering the well-being of the other, and that if the fighting continued, there would be no one left to enjoy the victory.

In the age of thermonuclear weapons, that is no longer a metaphor. It is what happens next if this course is not reversed.

Emergency Zoom Conference of the Movement of World Citizens

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From the UN Charter to Today: The Birth and Decline of International Law

March 1, 2026by tobi in General, International Peace Coalition

Feb. 27, 2026 (EIRNS)—The 143rd consecutive weekly meeting of the International Peace Coalition on Friday, Feb. 27, put a spotlight on the creation of the United Nations and the ongoing sabotage of the system of law that it begat. The meeting began with remarks by IPC initiator Helga Zepp-LaRouche, who opened with the assessment that “Unfortunately, the clouds of war are massing over our heads.” She noted that U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee advised U.S. embassy personnel to evacuate Israel immediately. Other nations did the same. U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has admitted that the United States has intentionally provoked the crisis in Iran via economic warfare measures. There is talk of a British-French initiative for providing Ukraine with nuclear weapons, an insanely provocative move.

There have been additional resignations by European leaders who are implicated in the Jeffrey Epstein files. Zepp-LaRouche pointed out that it is not merely depraved sexual activities that are at issue here; these activities betray a mindset which does not respect human life and human reason, and this mindset is integral to their support for neocon brutality toward Iran, Gaza, Cuba, etc. Alluding to the “America First” slogan, she emphasized, “National interest is fine, but it must be coherent with the idea of the One Humanity First…. We will not allow that the image of Man is dragged into the mud.” She reminded the participants of her longstanding proposal for a New International Security and Development Architecture. EIR is organizing a special emergency conference of the Movement of World Citizens on Monday, March 2 to address the urgent actions needed now.

Jonathan Kuttab is a Palestinian-American international human rights lawyer, expert on international law, and Executive Director of Friends of Sabeel North America, as well as Co-Founder of Nonviolence International. He bemoaned the “collapse of international law and international institutions,” and acknowledged Zepp-LaRouche’s proposal for a new security and development architecture. But he said that he has a different view. He reviewed the history of the creation of the UN and related institutions, and said the structure created at the end of World War II has actually worked quite well for 70 years. Admittedly there are some flaws in it, such as the veto granted to members of the UN Security Council. “I don’t think we should be in a hurry to give up on international law,” he said. “We need to find ways to put some teeth in it.”

Zepp-LaRouche hastened to correct the record, stating that the IPC and Schiller Institute are not recommending an end to international law, but seek to preserve and strengthen it.

Elisabeth Martens, organizer of the petition “For an Immediate Reactivation of the UN Charter In Favor of Multilateralism”, described her organization’s efforts to stop environmental crises, proxy wars, and the danger of nuclear weapons. She said that some people join mystical or spiritual movements to escape the reality of the situation, but we must address that reality. “We can no longer allow the interference of the United States into the affairs of the UN,” she said, and we reject their unipolar world. She also addressed the question of economic policy and the need to restrict financial speculation. With the end of the Cold War, she said, the Western nations created a mafioso-type economy and imposed it on the world. “When money does not serve the real economy, it becomes an uncontrollable machine which spawns wars … the tyranny under which millions of lives are pulverized.”

Father Harry Bury of Minnesota is a member of Twin Cities Nonviolent and the Association of U.S. Catholic Priests; he is also the author of Maverick Priest: A Story of Life on the Edge. He described the murder by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operatives of two Americans in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul. Members of his organization have invited Pope Leo XIV to go there to provide spiritual leadership. They learned that, due to prior commitments, he is unable to come; they had hoped to discuss the Schiller Institute’s Oasis Plan with him. Father Bury praised the dialogue process, and said that he has learned much from those who disagree with him. Addressing the assembled activists of the International Peace Coalition and the Schiller Institute, he said, “We’re joyful that we can work with you!”

Discussion Among the Featured Speakers

Zepp-LaRouche reviewed the history of the Schiller Institute’s 40-year campaign to rectify the underdevelopment of the Global South, something which the UN has failed to do. “In the West, people have to abandon the idea that the West is somehow superior to the Global South,” she said. “There can be no peace without development.”

Zepp-LaRouche discussed the concept of natural law, the idea that there are laws implicit in the universe which are higher than positive law established by humans. We root our campaign for a new architecture in these ideas, she said.

Kuttab said that the advocates for international law are weak and disorganized, while its opponents have the money and influence. “This is a huge challenge, and I think about it all the time.” The powers-that-be used to insist that they were for human rights, but now they have dropped the pretense.

Diane Sare, an independent U.S. Presidential candidate, recounted recent news reports of a refugee from Myanmar, Nurul Amin Shah Alam, who was nearly blind and could not speak English. He was detained in Buffalo, New York by ICE operatives, and then released at night in front of a closed coffee shop, where he subsequently froze to death. In order to avoid accountability, they classified his death as due to “natural causes.” This is the downfall of American culture, Sare insisted. We have embraced the idea that you cause people to change their behavior through force. President George Washington warned that if the citizenry, after becoming politically empowered by our Constitution, became debased, immoral, and obsessed with revenge, then the nation could fail. We must bridge the gap between the general state of mind of the population, and the true, fully matured nature of humanity.

Martens said we are moving from one system, from one world, to another. There is an economic change which must happen and is happening in other parts of the world. China has shown that it is possible to end poverty. The BRICS organization, the Belt and Road Initiative, these will lead the world forward. Zepp-LaRouche said that China is now the “American System” country, the country of Friedrich List. The Chinese model of cooperation is succeeding; the United States has 800 military bases around the world, and they are becoming more unpopular day by day. Britain’s King George III lost his marbles because he could not live with the success of the American Revolution, and we are seeing a similar phenomenon among the “Epstein class” today.

General Discussion

Sare insisted that “If we fail to prosecute anyone in the Epstein files, our nation will cease to exist,” because the moral depravity of the “Epstein class” is consistent with a willingness to accept the consequences of nuclear war.

A participant asked why the UN General Assembly Resolution 377, “Uniting for Peace” option has not been exercised in the current crisis, why is there no move to relocate the UN Headquarters, when the U.S. refuses visas to people they don’t like, and why there is no effort to enforce UN resolutions regarding Israel? Sare responded that diplomats have received mafia-style threats that prevent them from taking action. But Zepp-LaRouche said that she is totally convinced that these reforms can still happen in the short term.

Zepp-LaRouche concluded by expressing her belief that people will come to recognize that China’s practice of win-win cooperation is much more successful than the “zero-sum-game” model of geopolitics. We must first go through the vale of tears to reach a higher level of development. [eir]

Zepp-LaRouche on CGTN: Revitalize Traditional Sino-German Relations

February 27, 2026by tobi in General

CGTN today broadcast remarks by Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder of the Schiller Institute, based in Germany, saying that she “has praised China’s approach to development. She calls for revitalizing traditional Sino-German relations.” The following is the transcript provided by CGTN.

HELGA ZEPP-LAROUCHE: This is a moment where the whole world is in such a turmoil, there is the rift between Europe and the United States, Mr. President Trump’s tariff policy, you don’t know what it will be in the morning, the same in the evening. Many other crises, the Middle East crisis, the Ukraine was mentioned, so I think, you know, I think I would hope that the more thoughtful people, especially also in the German top industry, that they realized that with China they have a partner which have a steady, which has a steady foreign policy, which has a harmonious approach to the development of all nations and with all nations. And that, you know, there is this historical connection between Germany and China, which goes back to Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and I think it is important to evoke the better traditions of our relations.

And then there is this new model where, you know, China is no longer a market for German exports or, you know, a production base for production of low-quality industrial goods, but I think China has developed, now, a new model of cooperation whereby Germany has fallen behind in the auto sector. And China is now offering joint ventures, joint R&D, like the Volkswagen Group China Technology Corporation in Hefei in Anhui province, where Germany can relearn the most advanced developments of China in smart thriving in, you know, in all the new technologies of EV electric vehicles, and that way they can develop joint markets in the Global South and elsewhere.

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