International Peace Coalition: Why is it that human civilisation is closer to the brink of nuclear war than ever before – the Cuban Missile Crisis included – a danger now being discussed openly in mainstream and alternative media alike, and yet we continue to sail ever-closer to that unthinkable, suicidal end? Why is no one stopping what could end in what all qualified experts agree would be the annihilation of human civilisation? Who would be so insane as to advocate a nuclear war?

“London is deliberately opting for an escalation of the Ukraine crisis, while hypocritically professing a desire for peace,” the Russian Embassy in London mentioned in a statement issued on August 17, 2026, pointing to reports of British-supplied drones sent to carry out strikes deep into Russian territory. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov put a fine point on the matter in an August 18 interview, stressing: “We have the right to view the proudly announced direct participation of British missile forces in strikes against the Russian Federation as participation in the war, with all the consequences that follow.“

Commenting on Britain’s leading role in stoking war against Russia, Helga Zepp-LaRouche – the widow of US political activist Lyndon LaRouche and the founder of the LaRouche Movement‘s Schiller Institute, as well as the German Bürgerrechtsbewegung Solidarität Party – said: “It reflects a policy of certain imperialist oligarchical layers in the West.” She pointed to the bankruptcy of the London-centred financial system and the awareness that the system is ready to blow out in a systemic crisis. Zepp-LaRouche noted: “Some circles think that the only way to avoid that is by going to war. But that will lead to a catastrophe.“

This risk is not limited to the conflict centred in Ukraine – either geographically or in scope. To illustrate, take the case of the Pentagon’s Elbridge Colby, who is not only a primary advocate of US use of tactical nuclear weapons, but whose Teddy Roosevelt-style Big Stick promotion of the expulsion of Russia and China from the Western Hemisphere would have the US seize control of the region’s assets on behalf of London and Wall Street parasites. Not surprising, considering that Colby’s wife, Brazilian economist Susana Cordeiro Guerra, is a protégé of Friedmanite monetarist Paulo Guedes, part of the Chicago Boy gaggle that looted Chile under the Pinochet dictatorship.

Hence, the financial system and the war system are one and the same.

What can take the nuclear button out of the hands of those insane enough to use it? We must awaken the world to the immediate danger of nuclear war, Zepp-LaRouche urged in her webcast of August 19. To that end, the Schiller Institute and others are supporting an open letter to Pope Leo XIV, titled Appeal to Pope Leo XIV to Organise a Global Leaders Summit to Address the Questions of Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, signed by many prominent leaders and activists. The letter stated: “A papal appeal for an emergency summit to end the current wars and reverse the growing dependence on nuclear weapons and warfighting might give global leaders the chance to select a new course of action and get us off the current drive toward planet-destroying nuclear war.” It added: “We urge you, Pope Leo, to use your unique moral authority to convene such a meeting of the world’s leaders, including the heads of state of the three principal nuclear powers, to meet and respond to the pleas of humanity to take our world in a fundamentally different direction before it is too late.“

Zepp-LaRouche also called on all people who wish for humanity to have a future to mobilise around the open letter, to gather signatures and to “please help us in this campaign, and make sure it becomes the strongest message to the world that the world population does not want World War III and does not want to be eliminated“.

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

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