International Peace Coalition; July 23, 2026: In an interview on YouTube, Harald Kujat, a retired German Four-Star Air Force General, former Chief of Staff of the German Armed Forces and former Chairperson of the NATO Military Committee (from 2002-05), warned against the military buildup against Russia, saying: “We are dealing with a nuclear power – namely, the largest nuclear power on this Earth. Through the use of nuclear weapons, we are capable of bringing about the end of the world. And if that is not an incentive to prevent an escalation into a war with the largest nuclear power, then I do not know what else it would take. At the very least, it would mean that here in Europe, the use of nuclear weapons would trigger at least a 50-year Nuclear Winter.”

General (Retired) Kujat stressed: “How is this European continent supposed to survive if there is a war here? We have witnessed the destruction of the Second World War. A future war would surpass that by many times over. Where has this historical knowledge actually gone among our politicians? Where is the understanding of the dangers we are exposed to today?”

The International Peace Coalition (IPC) fully agree with this assertion of General (Retired) Kujat that the world – not only Europe – is sliding towards a pit of war which looks, with every passing day, more likely to be a nuclear war, from which no nation would recover; and at this point, no one can say how long it will be before we cannot reverse that slide.

Helga Zepp-LaRouche, the initiator of the IPC and founder of the Schiller Institute, remarked that General (Retired) Kujat’s statement expressed the view of humanity’s future, which she has held for some time. “We have never been at this level of danger before,” she said, not in the Cuban Missile Crisis, not in the Second World War. The march to World War must be stopped before the arrogant and ignorant confidence of so many political leaders of the West makes it unstoppable.

It is essential to speak out, demonstrate and activate in all ways possible against this immediate threat – it is the special responsibility of Americans to do so – and for everyone, anywhere, to act to stop the Western war faction, and move the world toward a new architecture for development, security and peace.

Given the war escalation, economic breakdown and nuclear threat, the stakes are existence itself.

Boundless Ocean of Politics received this article from the International Peace Coalition (IPC).

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