Megan Dobrodt
The deafening silence of the non-response from Western governments to [Tuesday’s revelations](https://eir.news/2026/02/news/russian-intelligence-services-warn-of-eu-plans-to-transfer-nukes-to-ukraine/
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from Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) that it believes the
U.K. and France are seeking to provide Ukraine with a nuclear weapon
says a lot about the level of insanity in the current strategic
situation—which only seems to become more dangerous and unpredictable by
the hour. The same day, members of the Coalition of the Willing gathered in Kiev
to pledge their undying support for continuing the lost war in Ukraine:
“For as long as it takes,” promised embattled U.K. Prime Minister Keir
Starmer. Nary a mention of the SVR accusations, though the British have
unsurprisingly been pushing for a nuclear showdown against Russia since
the days of Churchill and Lord Bertrand Russell—a modern reincarnation
appearing in 2022 when the Ministry of Defense’s Malcom Chalmers publicly called for a “Cuban Missile Crisis on steroids” in Crimea.
And
yet, quite lawfully, the gravitational pull of the burgeoning new
economic order exemplified by the Chinese economic miracle of the past
four decades is sweeping in even nations like Germany, whose otherwise
questionable and increasingly unpopular Chancellor Friedrich Merz just
concluded a state visit to Beijing, accompanied by top CEOs and other
business leaders. “I have been very critical of the situation for a long
time,” Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche told CGTN’s World Insight program
on Feb. 25, “but now for the first time, I think that there is a
changed environment where an opportunity can be taken and a
miracle—Germany and China are the two countries that had economic
miracles, Germany in the post-War period, and China has made the most
unprecedented miracle in world history ever, and if these two countries
combine their experience, I really think there is a great future ahead.”
The
tension felt between these two systems—one the old, dying colonial
system defended by Little Marco Rubio in Munich, and the other, the new
paradigm of win-win cooperation exemplified by Xi Jinping’s Global
Governance Initiative—pervades the strategic picture. In concrete terms,
that is felt, for example, in the question of whether U.S. President
Donald Trump will soon order a strike on Iran—an
insane move that more and more within U.S. institutions are warning
against—or whether cooler heads will prevail. The shameless lying about
Iran heard from Trump in his Feb. 24 State of the Union Address does not
inspire confidence in the possibility of a peaceful approach, and it
was called out directly by Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Esmaeil
Baghaei, who posted
on X on Feb. 25: “‘Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth,’
is a law of propaganda coined by Nazi Joseph Goebbels. This is now
systematically used by the U.S. administration and the war profiteers
encircling it…. Whatever they’re alleging in regards to Iran’s nuclear
program, Iran’s ballistic missiles and the number of casualties during
January’s unrest is simply the repetition of ‘big lies.’”
Which
direction—that of insanity, or reason—civilization will ultimately go in
is not an objective question; it is an existential cultural issue. Many
people in the Global South “are looking at the collective West
basically as a dying civilization,” Zepp-LaRouche said on Feb. 25 during
an interview with former CIA officer and intelligence analyst Larry Johnson.
“I think we may very well be…. [I]f we don’t get back to our more proud
tradition of science and technology and excellence in the economy, we
may end up being one of these civilizations where you can see the relics
in museums of a culture which didn’t make it.”
On Monday, March 2, the Schiller Institute will hold an emergency Zoom conference, “Epstein and the Bottomless Depravity of the ‘Elites’ —Urgent Need for a Cultural Renaissance!”
which will address the creation of a new security and development
architecture, the creation of an international movement of world
citizens, and the creation of a new cultural renaissance. The two-panel
event will include the participation of distinguished representatives
from institutions from all over the world, as well as experts, scholars,
scientists and artists. Count yourself among those who choose Reason
and organize maximum participation in the conference as a crucial
intervention to replace Insanity in human affairs—before it’s too late
to act.