Geopolitics is deadly. Not only for its purveyors, but, as we are in the midst of learning firsthand, for the entire human species. This should be no surprise, given that the evil beliefs about human beings at its core – that man is but a clever beast to be herded and culled – are in violation of natural law.

“Are we out of our minds that we are risking the civilization of humanity by playing these geopolitical games?” 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, asked during her international webcast on May 6. She added: “For what?… I think it’s high time that we rethink the entire strategic situation and say that the fact is that conventional wars cannot be won anymore. If there is one proof necessary, it was just delivered by Iran successfully preventing the US and Israel’s very superior military forces from winning. You cannot win such a war… and if you want to cross the threshold to nuclear war, you’re risking the existence of the entire human civilisation.”

Zepp-LaRouche stressed: “So why not draw the conclusion out of the fact that these interventionist wars cannot be won? They were not won in Vietnam, not in Afghanistan, not in Iraq, not in Libya, not in Ukraine, and now not in Iran. So why not stop a game which cannot be won? I think it’s an urgent need to seriously start the discussion about the new security and development architecture, which we have been talking about since the beginning of the Ukraine war four years ago.“

This is exactly the direction of thinking of many “adults in the room” who are attempting to steer not just the situation in Southwest Asia, but the entire global paradigm, into more stable waters. The Russian Government continues to back a resolution to the Iran conflict “with due regard for the interests of all regional states,” as Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova insisted on May 5, 2026, proposing, yet again, Russia’s “Collective Security Concept for the Persian Gulf“. China is also playing a crucial role. While Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi met his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi in Beijing on May 6, spokesperson of the Chinese Foreign Ministry Lin Jian, responding to questions about Beijing’s role in resolving the conflict, stated: “We… support a regional architecture for peace and security established by regional countries with common participation for common interests and common development.“

It’s exactly and only that kind of anti-colonial, non-geopolitical approach that can fully free humanity from the danger, hanging over all our heads, that the US-Israeli War against Iran will ignite again and quite possibly turn nuclear.

This is no idle concern. Late on May 5, US President Donald John Trump announced, at the request of Pakistan and other nations, that he was pausing Project Freedom which managed to escort a measly two ships out of the Persian Gulf, “to see whether the Agreement“, a draft memorandum from the US side with a proposal to end the war, “can be finalised and signed“. On May 6 morning, the Iranian side confirmed that they are evaluating the proposal, and at roughly the same time that Trump posted: “If they don’t agree, the bombing starts, and it will be, sadly, at a much higher level and intensity than it was before.“

While headlines about Iran occupy the front burner of world attention, provocations toward war against larger targets, Russia and China, continue. On May 6, Japan participated in joint military exercises with the US and the Philippines, during which it fired its Type 88 offensive missile in foreign waters for the first time, to which China responded sternly that the “malevolent emergence of neo-militarism in Japan… put regional peace and stability under threat“. True to form, the establishment’s Anglophile Council on Foreign Relations shamelessly published an article the day before celebrating Japan’s remilitarisation and its moves away from a pacifist security policy.

“We are… in an extremely dangerous situation,” Zepp-LaRouche insisted. She added: “The illusion people may have is that since the big catastrophe has not yet happened, that things will continue like that forever. But I think if you look at it from a historical point of view, one can clearly determine the point when it was too late to stop the First World War and when it was too late to stop the Second World War. And I think we are in such a pre-war situation, where fateful events could happen more quickly than anybody thinks. I think the need to go to a New Paradigm is more urgent than ever.“

Boundless Ocean of Politics received this article from the International Peace Coalition (IPC) on May 7, 2026.

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Koushik Das (born on May 16, 1976 in Kolkata) is a career journalist. Based in the Indian capital of New Delhi, Koushik writes mainly about foreign policies and current geopolitical issues, and rarely about other topics. His own political ideas are highly influenced by Antonio Gramsci, Louis Althusser, Michel Foucault, Michael Oakeshott and others. English philosopher and political theorist Oakeshott (Dec 11, 1901-Dec 19, 1990) says that “in political activity, men sail a boundless and bottomless sea. There is neither harbour for shelter nor floor for anchorage, neither starting-place, nor appointed destination. But we have to keep afloat”. (Rationalism in Politics, 1962) As a student of Political Science, Koushik loves to share his views on issues, which have great impacts on his thought process (and also on India, South Asia and of course on the global community), with his readers through his website – Boundless Ocean of Politics. By doing so, he tries to keep himself afloat. You will find some of his articles in https://inserbia.info/today/ (https://inserbia.info/today/author/kou_das13_i/), as he has been trying to assess the global geopolitics since 2003. You can also mail him at kousdas@gmail.com View all posts by Koushik Das