CATALYZING A TECTONIC CHANGE FOR THE BETTER
The first year of a presidency that promised “America First” has produced a record that is deeply divided against itself. There have been real, if fragile, departures from the logic of endless war: the formal rejection of primacy in strategic doctrine, the reopening of diplomacy with Russia and Belarus, a narrowly defined ceasefire with the […]
BEFORE THE DOOR CLOSES
The world, as Helga Zepp-LaRouche warned, is “hanging between hope and disaster,” and the outcome depends on whether action replaces inertia. There are openings. The continued dialogue between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, described by both sides as productive, marks a meaningful path forward toward ending the conflict playing out in Ukraine. Alongside diplomatic movement forward […]
WAR FEVER AND THE NEW OUTLAWS
Europe’s war chorus is growing louder as its strategic capabilities grow thinner. Strip away the slogans, and a blunt question remains unanswered: Can the EU or NATO credibly fight Russia without the United States? Not sanction, not posture, but fight? The answer, obvious to military planners and increasingly obvious to publics, is no. And that reality […]
DIPLOMACY MUST OVERCOME WHAT SOME CALL DESTINY
As the danger of wider war mounts across multiple theaters, a quiet but consequential intervention is underway. Kirill Dmitriev has arrived in Florida for weekend meetings with Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, focused on ending the Ukraine conflict. At a moment when rhetoric elsewhere races toward “unprecedented” escalation—from the Baltic to the Caribbean—the very fact […]