Fireside Chat w/ Mike Bilington and Bill Jones, 5/1/25

Unless those in the United States continue to willingly avoid reality, the fact that we are now heading towards a systemic breakdown crisis in the trans-Atlantic sector today, cannot be avoided.

Though the Trump Administration embarks on a different path with Russia than the previous Biden Administration, there is a clear fight being waged by the war hawks to derail the progress that has so far been made. The attacks on Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff, by nasty neocons like Michael McFaul and John Bolton in the New York Post, makes this battle within the administration very clear.
Meanwhile, another war threatens to detonate in the India-Pakistan theater on the basis of a terrorist incident in Indian-controlled Kashmir, where both countries are nuclear powers and openly threatening to use those weapons. While the majority of those two countries’ leaders are set on blaming each other, an insightful comment was made by Pakistan’s Defense Minister, who pointed the finger at ‘outside forces’ for deploying terrorism in the region, particularly naming Great Britain as one of the main provocateurs in the region for the last thirty years.

On April 30, 1975, the disastrous Vietnam War had ignominiously ended, 50 years ago. It was that war, launched after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, which put the United States on the path of imperialism, a policy path which previous leaders Franklin Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, and John F. Kennedy had been vigorously opposed to. American troops who fought in the Second World War, which ended 80 years ago, fought against the forces of fascism and were ignited by outlook expressed by Roosevelt to end British imperialism. That war’s victory is being celebrated throughout Russia and China today. Russian President Vladimir Putin has proposed a three-day truce between Russia and Ukraine, commencing May 8-10, to commemorate the end of the Second World War in Europe.

That is just one step towards creating a new, security and development architecture for Europe, and all nations of the world. That process will be furthered by the Schiller Institute’s Memorial Day weekend conference on May 24-25, “A Beautiful Vision for Humanity in Times of Great Turbulence!”