The Next Steps for Mankind

July 16-The historic summit today between Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin marks a dramatic phase-shift in history. It is the result of a long, difficult battle, led in no small part by Lyndon LaRouche over the past fifty years, to create an alignment of interests among the great nations and cultures of history as the necessary and sufficient force required to end the tyranny of the British empire once and for all. In particular, LaRouche posed that cooperation among "Four Powers"-Russia, China, India, and the United States (which represents the distillation of the best of European culture)-could replace the broken Western financial system centered in London and Wall Street, with a new paradigm, based not on monetary power and colonial wars, but on a credit system to bring peace and prosperity through mutual development for all nations. Before stepping into the private, one-on-one meeting with Putin, Trump told the press that they would be discussing many things, mentioning, in particular, that Russia and the United States were cooperating with "our mutual friend President Xi." The two Presidents met the press after a two-and-a-half-hour private discussion and a luncheon with their aides. They both confronted the "foolishness" and "danger" of allowing the relations between the two leading nuclear powers to continue to deteriorate. Putin noted that "the current tension, the tense atmosphere, essentially has no solid reason behind it. The Cold War is a thing of past. The era of acute ideological confrontation of the two countries is a thing of remote past, is a vestige of the past." He proposed re-establishing the anti-terrorism working group, and setting up three joint working groups of experts to work on solutions to the fundamental issues: (1) cyber-security, to get to the truth of the cyber warfare being used by the "Get Trump" task force under Robert Mueller to remove Trump from office and provoke war with Russia; (2) a working group of business leaders to expand cooperation, noting that over 500 leading U.S. business leaders attended the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum in May; and (3) a working group of political and military experts, to look for ways to collaborate on the serious issues facing mankind around the world. Trump, in his statement, said he was determined to "continue the proud tradition of bold American diplomacy. From the earliest days of our republic, American leaders have understood that diplomacy and engagement is preferable to conflict and hostility." He said that the relationship between the two nations "has never been worse than it is now. However, that changed, as of about four hours ago," adding that "I would rather take a political risk in pursuit of peace than to risk peace in pursuit of politics."