Zepp-LaRouche: Trump NSS Creates Moment to Change Failed Post-Cold War World Order

Dec. 9--In discussion with associates Dec. 8, Schiller Institute chairwoman and International Peace Coalition founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche said that the new U.S. NSS and the response to it have created “a moment of utmost break in an order which existed in the post-Cold War period.” 

Zepp-LaRouche reiterated her call for NATO to be abolished, an idea which NSS seems to support, but she emphsized not as an isolated step. Instead, we must force the recognition that “this whole effort to create a unipolar world after the end of the Cold War backfired tremendously”; the regime-change wars, the unilateral sanctions, unfair trade relations—all of this caused a blowback within the countries of the Global South, which increasingly sees the West as the enforcers of neocolonialism and China, for example, as offering an opportunity to finally overcome this. “Therefore, the only sensible way the world can get out of this crisis is to stop this narrow-minded thinking of geopolitical self-interest, and replace that thinking, which only leads to new conflicts and potentially even the annihilation of civilization,” she stated.

“That is why we should intervene with a concerted effort to catapult the whole debate onto the necessary level of [creating] a New Paradigm, of a new security and development architecture which must take into account [the national interests] of every country on the planet. Otherwise it will not work,” Zepp-LaRouche concluded.