On Monday, Aug. 18, President Donald Trump hosted acting Ukrainian President Zelenskyy and seven European leaders at the White House for a series of meetings on ending the conflict in Ukraine, following up on his Alaska summit last Friday with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

In a statement following the discussions, Trump reported two primary outcomes of those meetings: 1) moving toward a bilateral meeting between President Putin and President Zelenskyy, followed by a trilateral meeting including President Trump; and 2) discussions of security guarantees for Ukraine, “provided by the various European Countries, with a coordination with the United States of America.”

Prior to and during the meeting, those security guarantees were the obsession of the European leaders who had scrambled to Washington to back Ukraine as the last bastion against “the evil Russian invader.” It isn’t known exactly what kind of security guarantees were discussed behind closed doors, and, as with many things, the devil is in the details. While Russia will never accept European and NATO boots on the ground in Ukraine—especially with long-range missile capability—that is exactly what the British have been calling for, and it is quite unlikely that the Coalition of the Willing has so quickly suffered a change of heart.

What is needed for the world is true security, which comes not in preparing for war and deterring the enemy through military might, as heard in the hyperventilating proclamations of the geopolitically minded, warmongering European leaders; the true content of security, and of peace, is development.

This indisputable fact rests upon the authority of natural law: Mankind is a one—a unified species whose fundamental characteristic is creative discovery. The maximum development of the creative capacity of our species across the entire planet is in the best interest of every person in every nation. This principle is enshrined in the American Declaration of Independence as the Leibnizian “pursuit of happiness.”

The shift in the world that began in the Aug. 15 Alaska summit between President Trump and President Putin, away from the precipice of confrontation between nuclear powers, must be seen against the backdrop of the larger, tectonic shift occurring in the world order. The geopolitical, unipolar system is over, and more and more nations of the world, such as the BRICS+ nations, are reorganizing themselves into new modes of cooperation and collaboration for long-overdue development.

This was expressed in a statement by President Putin on the website of the Vladivostok Eastern Economic Forum, whose upcoming meeting begins September 3: “We have identified the development of the Far East as a national priority for the entire 21st century. The importance and correctness of this decision has been confirmed by life itself, by the challenges we have faced recently, and, most importantly, by the real trends that are gaining momentum in the global economy, where the key business ties, trade routes, and in general, the entire vector of development are increasingly reorienting toward the East and the Global South.”

Helga Zepp-LaRouche has called for the crucial next steps to be taken coming out of the Trump-Putin summit: President Trump must go to Beijing for the September 3rd 80th anniversary commemoration of the end of World War II and there meet with Presidents Xi Jinping and Putin; to cement a new direction for the world, away from the forever wars of the British Empire, those three Presidents must agree to lead a new mode of economic development among nations, spearheaded by the Bering Strait tunnel project.



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The Aug. 15 Alaska summit between Presidents Trump and Putin succeeded in derailing what was looking like an oncoming train wreck of a head-on U.S.-Russian military confrontation, orchestrated for years by London, largely through their agents of influence in the Obama and Biden administrations. U.S. President Trump has charted a different path, and these networks are now being systematically exposed and dismantled with the help of DNI Tulsi Gabbard’s flow of revelations.
President Trump himself has been clear-eyed about this. Speaking to interviewer Mark Levin on Aug. 19 about the Ukraine crisis, Trump said: “I think it was heading to World War Three [under Biden], and you’re not going to have that anymore…. This was heading to World War Three.”
Much, however, remains to be done on the Alaska agenda. Further provocations orchestrated by London and its European satraps have to be stopped. The specifics of a system providing indivisible security to all countries in the region—and the world—remains to be fleshed out. But the principle of cooperation to achieve security for all, and not confrontation, has been proven to work.
There is a second looming train wreck that London has been working on assiduously: a total takeover of the collapsing dollar-based financial system through their crypto craze—pumping in $100-$200 trillion of worthless funny-money to bail out their $2 quadrillion speculative bubble. The most effective way to derail that crisis is for Trump to accept a Xi Jinping invitation to attend the Sept. 3 celebration in Beijing of the 80th anniversary of Victory in the Pacific in World War II, and to there hold a three-way summit meeting with Presidents Putin and Xi Jinping, as Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche has called for. The central topic: economic cooperation.
There is a systemic breakdown crisis of the entire trans-Atlantic financial system underway, and there is an urgent need to come up with alternatives to the beggar-thy-neighbor tariff warfare policies that have been foisted on the Trump administration by hedge fund operatives, such as Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick (think Cantor Fitzgerald), Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent (think George Soros), and Stephen Miran (think Hudson Bay Capital), the head of Trump’s Council of Economic Advisers, whom he just named to the Federal Reserve Board to replace the departing Adriana Kugler.
Here’s what the American Soybean Association just told President Trump in an Aug. 19 open letter, in which they urged U.S.-China trade talks to stop the retaliatory tariff warfare: “U.S. soybean farmers are standing at a trade and financial precipice…. U.S. soybean farmers cannot survive a prolonged trade dispute with our largest customer.” China has historically imported more than 60% of the world’s soybean supplies, but the tariff warfare Trump has unleashed means that “China has not purchased any U.S. soybeans for the months ahead as we quickly approach harvest,” and Beijing is turning to other suppliers instead.
Soybeans are just one of dozens of agricultural and industrial sectors that are on the chopping block, as a result of Wall Street and the City of London’s perverse looting policies. If Trump were to sit down with Presidents Xi and Putin, much as he did with Putin in Alaska, an entirely different pathway for economic relations among nations could be mapped out. The Bering Strait tunnel project is just the start. This could be combined with full development of the Northern Sea Route across the Arctic Ocean, and the broader Polar Silk Road which is part of China’s global Belt and Road Initiative. The combined rail and maritime development corridors would open up Siberian and North American natural resources for joint high-tech industrial development.


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The logic of conflict seems to have taken on a life of its own. Zelensky and his European zombie friends continue to crow that Ukraine will be victorious, that no territorial concessions are on the table for a peace agreement with Russia. The world watches in agony and impotence as the State of Israel continues its campaign of destroying Palestinian life. How can this be stopped?

What is the way out? What can change the political geometry?

It may be that the light is at the end of the Bering Strait tunnel.

The warm meeting between Presidents Trump and Putin in Alaska included discussion not only of the NATO-Russia conflict unfolding in Ukraine, but also of the enormous potential for cooperation between their Arctic nations. Untold mineral wealth exists in the north. Building a land transportation and development corridor across the Bering Strait which separates the U.S. from Russia, will be a key feature of building out the World Land-Bridge.

Unlike transport by air or by sea, land transport and development corridors (including energy, water, and communications) fundamentally transform the economic productivity of the areas they pass through.

Were the United States to build up a partnership with Russia, and expand that to cooperation with other nations representing the future of the world (China, India, South Africa, to name a few), the paradigm of hegemonism could be replaced by one of growth.

The upcoming meeting in China of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization promises huge potential for China-India rapprochement and normalization. Already, one week ago, Wang Yi’s trip to New Delhi won benefits for both nations.

And on September 3, China will commemorate the 80th anniversary of the defeat of Japanese militarism in World War II.

Will Donald Trump join Presidents Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin at this historic event? It would certainly be better for Trump than his planned September 17-19 meeting with King Charles!

Former Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Olmert spoke to the need for a change of government to end the fighting. "If the meaning of this plan [to take over Gaza City] means the deportation of hundreds of thousands of Gazans, it is totally unbearable and unacceptable," he told Danish media. In that case, "there is no other way to interpret it but ethnic cleansing," he said.

Irish President Michael D. Higgins has noted that despite the paralysis of the UN Security Council, the General Assembly is independently capable of calling on countries to act, including with force if need be, to ensure the supply of humanitarian assistance to Gaza, a sentiment also expressed by former South African Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Naledi Pandor.

Despite the progress made by Trump and Putin in their bilateral meeting in Alaska, Zelensky and the Europeans seem intent on prolonging the war that is destroying Ukraine. Zelensky, who is acting as the President in Kiev, rejected Trump's call for a comprehensive peace and declared that Ukraine will not part with any of its territory, including even Crimea.

Escaping the your-gain-is-my-loss paradigm embraced by the Anglo-American establishment is the only way to achieve a better future.

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In a discussion with international collaborators, Helga Zepp-LaRouche described the changed political world situation after the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) meeting, which took place on August 31 and September 1, 2025, as follows: 
“The strategic picture is one of incredible changes going on at the same time and in very different directions. But one thing is certain to say: With the meeting in Tianjin in China with the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the world is already changing and has already changed in a way which cannot be undone. What that signifies for sure is that the effort to have a unipolar Western-dominated world in control over the majority of the world population is definitely over. A new system is clearly being established where the attitude of the West to look at this new formation as the enemy is completely suicidal and fatal, and we must correct it. The only way to relate to this emerging new world order is through cooperation. I think that is the absolute message which we have to introduce in every channel of the Western organizing for what can possibly be done.
“What is happening is enormous; it is nothing less than the establishment of a new world economic order based on principles which are in great affinity with what Lyndon LaRouche had been fighting for his whole life, starting with the IDB, the idea of overcoming developing sector under-development and introducing justice in the economic system. That will take an enormous fight to explain to people because by just glancing at the media this morning, they are completely hysterical about the fact that the big three—China, India, and Russia—are now together. And on top of that naturally other SCO members as well. But the verbiage is that the probable war criminal Putin got the red carpet treatment, blah, blah, blah; all of this sort of thing.”
Describing the approach that must be used to win the populations in the Western nations to participate in this historic change and to help their respective countries join this changed world, Zepp-LaRouche said:
“I think by now, everybody has the sense of the incredible potential of this moment. These are the kinds of moments which do not come all the time, and they are the rule of the developments. In 1989, this was such a moment; what we called the star hour of mankind, the historic chance of ’89. This was thoroughly screwed up. That chance remained sort of lingering a little bit afterwards because there was a discussion that Russia could have joined NATO. There are now new documents out that Clinton even considered it at a certain point. Lyndon LaRouche was in the middle of this, if you remember our first trip to Moscow after Lyndon came out of jail. This was the period when this potential clearly existed, and it was sabotaged. So, we should really get this sense across to the people we are talking to, who are all correctly complaining about the suffering of various kinds of poverty, unemployment, other considerations, school violence, drug addiction, suicidal tendencies. This is the moment to really change direction, and I think we must do it with the sense that mankind is the only creative species; that man is gifted with creative reason, and therefore we are not the victims of this or that or some developments we can’t influence. If you have the right historic coalition and constellation of forces, you can, through voluntary action and having the right idea of a plan for the future, one can shape history. I think it is that optimistic sense we must invoke in the people we are organizing so they don’t feel small and think that you can’t do anything anyway, this kind of pessimistic self-conception.”


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