A Global Dialogue of Peace Between Opposites

As of now, the world is in the same situation it was exactly 63 years ago, on October 22, 1962, when President Kennedy, in a special broadcast to the American people, had announced the policy of the U.S. against the Soviet Union’s stationing of nuclear missiles in Cuba. He had said, “It shall be the policy of this Nation to regard any nuclear missile launched from Cuba against any nation in the Western Hemisphere as an attack by the Soviet Union on the United States, requiring a full retaliatory response upon the Soviet Union.”

The increase in hostility against Russia from the trans-Atlantic nations, including the U.S., Germany, the United Kingdom, and France, risks the danger of a breakout of thermonuclear war. Speaking to the International Peace Coalition yesterday, MIT professor and leading U.S. nuclear expert Ted Postol had shown the tenuity of the nuclear architecture, which could be unleashed upon the world by accident or miscalculation, and that even after the first nuclear device was used—whether low-yield or high-yield—there is no stopping the chain-reaction of retaliatory attacks by nations.

Ted Postol’s presentation is a wake-up call to every concerned citizen in the world, to take immediate action to stop the unthinkable from occurring. There was a glimmer of hope showcased this Wednesday in the emergency EIR roundtable discussion on the construction of a corridor between Alaska and Russia through the Bering Sea, which connect Afro-Eurasia with Canada, the U.S., and possibly even southwards towards Central and South America. The antidote to nuclear war is contained within big projects, which unite nations through economic development, and contribute to the greater good of mankind’s future.

Russian Direct Investment Fund CEO and Kremlin Special Envoy Kirill Dmitriev, just a few days after the ill-conceived U.S. sanctions on Russian oil companies, has signaled that peace is still possible. Dmitriev is an enthusiastic proponent of the Bering Strait Tunnel project to link the Americas with Afro-Eurasia, and shared a map drawn in the 1960s showing the “Kennedy-Khrushchev Peace Bridge,” a proposed linkage between Alaska and Russia during the Kennedy Administration. Dmitriev has proposed that the tunnel be built under the name, “Putin-Trump Peace Bridge.”

With Dmitriev now in the U.S., the potential exists to turn geopolitical conflict into dialogue on infrastructure for peace. That is dependent on people grasping the solution-concepts of Lyndon LaRouche and his wife Helga Zepp-LaRouche today.

Speakers: Harley Schlanger and Bill Jones