The January 20, 2025 inauguration of US President Donald John Trump and his flurry of statements, as well as executive decrees, over the following 48 hours have riveted the attention of a world in commotion. “The whole world is looking at the United States, and depending on what political camp you are in, between hope and fear,” said Helga Zepp-LaRouche, the founder of Schiller Institute and the widow of American political activist Lyndon LaRouche. She issued the statement at the outset of her weekly Dialogue webcast. The situation, according to Helga Zepp-LaRouche, is “complicated and multi-faceted” and Trump’s actions are not all coherent with each other. She believes that the US President is impulsive and innovative at the same time.

However, many are wasting time debating whether the glass is half empty or half full, listing off the good and the bad things Trump is doing and saying especially when what is actually happening is that the entire nature of the glass they think they are looking at has changed dramatically. And the transformation demands our immediate action. “We are now experiencing a tectonic change, where the 500 years of colonialism is coming to an end, and the BRICS countries are trying to create a system which allows for the economic development of the Global South,” stressed LaRouche. They have become protagonists in the shaping of Man’s future, she added.

Despite his uninformed (and counterproductive) attacks on the BRICS, President Trump has stated his desire to prevent the World War III, to normalise relations with Putin’s Russia and end the Ukraine War, to cooperate with China in order to make the world a better place for all nations. This change has created a strategic opening that must be quickly leveraged to bring about a new reality “on the ground”. The most urgent – perhaps also the hardest – place for that to happen is in Southwest Asia.

The Israel-Palestine crisis, including the genocide in Gaza and increasing Israeli atrocities in the West Bank, can only be solved by reconstructing the entire region along the lines proposed by Lyndon LaRouche’s Oasis Plan. Abundant fresh water, power, high-speed rail lines, a rebuilt health and education infrastructure are all within reach. Only by getting to work on building that infrastructure can real optimism for the future be created, an optimism that (both) the Israelis and the Palestinians so desperately need.

To those who argue that a political solution is needed before the economics can proceed, Lyndon LaRouche responded 35 years ago (on August 21, 1990) by stating: “For years, our proposals for economic development, have been repeatedly brushed aside, with the advice that a political settlement must come first, and then an economic cooperation for general development of the region, might become possible.” He also said: “We have repeatedly said, and rightly so, that the line of argument is wrong, and even dangerously absurd. The simple reason is that without a policy of economic development, the Arabs and Israelis have no common basis for political agreement: no common interest.”

The Oasis Plan can work (especially) if the United States and China cooperate to bring it about. A January 22 (2025) lead editorial in the semi-official Chinese daily Global Times reflected the views of Beijing, as it stated: “What is certain is that as Trump begins his second presidential term, there is widespread hope for a mature and stable China-US relationship. For both countries, there is a lot of potential for various forms of cooperation; the key is whether they can meet each other halfway… A return to rational and pragmatic policies toward China is the shared aspiration of the peoples of both China and the US.“

The Oasis Plan is a good place to put that commitment into practice.

Schiller Institute published this article on January 24, 2025.

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