EIR LEAD EDITORIAL FOR TUESDAY DECEMBER 6, 2022

Will There Be a Breakthrough for Diplomacy?

Dec. 5, 2022 (EIRNS)—Even as Victoria Nuland (the 2014 coup plotter) swoops into Kiev to promote a relentless struggle against Russia rather than any form of negotiation, and as Ukrainian officials give conditions for negotiations that effectively completely rule out discussions with Russia, there are growing forces throughout the world that oppose the U.S.-U.K.-NATO intent to crush Russia and China. But will those forces find the organization and leadership necessary to force a change in paradigm?

Recent events show that this is a time for great changes:

Elon Musk is cleaning Twitter’s Augean stable, by publicizing, through journalists, the behind-the-scenes collaboration with government and political officials to make moderation decisions, including leading into the U.S. 2020 election. If such coordination is not election interference, Musk said, he doesn’t know what is. The process he has set into motion could play a significant role in liberating the deliberative process, bucking the trend towards increasing censorship under the guise of de-bunking (or even “pre-bunking”) what is called “misinformation.”

That French President Emmanuel Macron’s tepid suggestions of support for Russia’s security interests were met with a tempest of opposition from Ukrainian officials shows not the strength of the Ukrainian position, but how its maintenance depends on preventing discussion of the situation on the ground.

In China, protests against COVID measures were publicized by Western media as possibly foretelling the doom of President Xi Jinping. But China has simply moved in a reasonable way to update its COVID measures, in coordination with health experts and think tank leaders.

Meanwhile, the wild situation of U.S. political discourse shows the need for a quality of leadership otherwise lacking among “off-the-shelf” public figures.

The common aims of mankind are seen in the Dec. 5 ceremonial beginning of construction of the Square Kilometer Array telescope, and the 207-second burn of Artemis’ Orion capsule at only 79 miles from the Moon, setting it on course to return to Earth over the next week.

But the quality of discussion required to grant the world a peace characterized by poverty eradication, infrastructure and economic advance, and cultural improvement—the only possible form of peace today—continues to be provided by the LaRouche movement and is most recently exemplified in the ten principles for a new world architecture that Helga Zepp-LaRouche has introduced for discussion.