Jason Ross EIRNS - King Charles and Camilla on the Buckingham Palace balcony following their coronation. Credit: OGL/HM Government
On Monday morning, April 27, four events of strategic
consequence unfold in three cities, and they should be read as a single
report on the state of the West.
In Washington, King Charles III arrives
for a four-day state visit to celebrate, Buckingham Palace tells us,
the “historic connections and the modern bilateral relationship” between
Britain and the United States—on the 250th anniversary of the American
Revolution that severed those connections by force of arms, in defense
of the proposition that all men are created equal.
In New York, the 11th Review Conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons opens
at UN Headquarters, where it will sit for nearly a month, attempting to
salvage a regime that the U.S.-Israeli unprovoked bombardment of
Iran—an NPT signatory in good standing, which has at no point been
credibly demonstrated to have been pursuing a nuclear weapon—has already
eviscerated.
In Islamabad, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas
Araghchi returns from Muscat to continue consultations with Pakistan’s
leadership, before flying on to Moscow. Iran has made its position clear: There will be no negotiations under the gun of a U.S. naval blockade.
And
in Washington, the city about to host the British King, federal
investigators are processing the apprehension of Cole Tomas Allen, a
31-year-old Caltech-trained mechanical engineer with no criminal record,
who Saturday night, April 25, attempted to shoot his way into the very ballroom where the President of the United States and members of his Cabinet were dining.
What strange convergence, appearing on the eve of a British King’s lecture to the U.S. Congress!
Britain
has come to Washington to celebrate an Anglo-American “special
relationship” which has consisted of attempts to turn the United States
against its revolutionary anti-imperial founding. Most recently, this
has included dragging the United States into a war of aggression against
Iran—a war whose combined effects, eight weeks in, include over a
billion barrels of lost oil production, the Pentagon’s expenditure of
more than 1,000 Tomahawks and up to 2,000 air-defense interceptors that
will take six years to replace, extensive Iranian damage to U.S. military bases
throughout the Persian Gulf, the spread of fertilizer and food crises
into already conflict-stricken regions of Africa and Asia, and the de
facto collapse of the global nuclear non-proliferation regime.
The voices for a Dialogue of Civilizations are not absent. Helga Zepp-LaRouche, who gave an interview
to Pakistan TV on Friday night, April 24—not long before Araghchi’s
arrival in Pakistan—said that the only path forward is the construction
of “a new security and development architecture which has to take into
account the interests of every single country on the planet.” On April
15, the Schiller Institute and the Beijing-based Academy of Contemporary
China and World Studies had held a joint seminar
in Berlin precisely on the subject of “Global Governance as Well as
Civilizational Exchange and Mutual Learning.” Pope Leo XIV, returning
from his 11-day apostolic journey to Africa last Thursday, April 23,
urged the U.S. and Iran to return to talks and called for a “culture of peace” to replace the recourse to violence whenever conflicts arise.
For
this new culture of peace to take hold, the world must act to ensure
that the citizens of the United States—on the 250th anniversary of their
independence from precisely the imperial power Charles III
represents—act accordingly.