During the United Nations General Debate in the third week of September 2025, a growing chorus of voices spoke against the genocide in Gaza, and dangerously confrontational discussions, led by Europe, about Russia.

In the Mediterranean, a civilian flotilla headed for Gaza reported drone attacks overnight on September 23, 2025. In response, Italy and Spain decided to dispatch warships to the flotilla – not to fight, but to help if rescue is needed. That careful phrasing says a lot. Are these countries looking for ways to show support without starting a fight they think they cannot win?

Israel has closed the West Bank’s only crossing to Jordan, meaning that the only way for Palestinians to travel internationally – or to ship or receive goods – is by entering and passing through Israel. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin ‘Bibi’ Netanyahu has announced that he is absolutely opposed to the establishment of a Palestinian State, and his actions to further destroy, isolate and splinter the Palestinian communities in the West Bank aim to create more “volunteers” for the “voluntary emigration” he promotes, while making the establishment of a Palestinian State even more difficult.

Look to Europe. reports of drones near major airports shut down air travel in Copenhagen and Oslo, while NATO warned Moscow after alleged airspace violations into Estonia. NATO officials insisted that they would defend every inch of Allied territory, yet they also avoided stating what steps they would take.

In the US, hundreds of doctors and health workers have warned that cuts and staff losses are hollowing out care for US veterans. YouTube, under political scrutiny, has stated that it is walking back years of pandemic- and election-era content removals. As Pentagon planners are talking about controlling orbital space, while many US citizens are asking who’s minding urgent needs closer to home, who is thinking about the economic future of the country and the planet.

Meanwhile, the Global South is not sitting around waiting for permission to act. Leaders from Brazil, China, Nigeria, South Africa, Turkey, Iran, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and others are, in various ways, coordinating more openly – on peace talks, on development and also on how to maintain their independence – in a world where Anglo-American NATO demands that they choose sides.

Threading that needle, day after day, is its own kind of risk. A change in strategic geometry is needed, and a new security and development architecture is required for the world. It is time for the so-called West to join, and productively contribute to defining, the unstoppable new paradigm.

“It is in the fundamental self-interest of the nations of the Collective West – no longer truly united – to cooperate with the states of the Global Majority and to jointly address the great challenges facing humankind: overcoming poverty and underdevelopment, ensuring lasting world peace, and securing the right of every person on this planet to fulfill their potential,” stressed Helga Zepp-LaRouche, the widow of American political activist Lyndon LaRouche and the founder of the LaRouche Movement‘s Schiller Institute, as well as the German Bürgerrechtsbewegung Solidarität Party. The Schiller Institute has appealed to the Western countries to cooperate with this new world economic order.

The International Peace Coalition published this article on September 25, 2025.

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