The World That Should Have Been

Work is now under way for the lead feature in the next EIR, tentatively titled "The World That Should Have Been." Start from the standpoint of where the world is headed at this moment. The world financial system is hopelessly doomed, and soon. The British Monarchy is committed to a new dark age globally, to be triggered by an Israeli attack on Iran, with backing and complicity from the British-owned President Obama. Such an attack is most likely to occur, unless stopped, by sometime before the November 2010 mid-term Federal elections in the United States. And under the direction of a pack of incompetent military commanders, typified by Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the U.S. is preparing for an insane major military offensive in Kandahar Province in Afghanistan sometime between now and the beginning of the Summer. To be kind, the patriotism of McChrystal and his ilk is a highly questionable proposition. Taken together, an Israel-instigated attack on Iran and a U.S. plunge deeper into land war in Asia, is certain to unleash a permanent asymmetric war throughout Eurasia, a war likely to take on the character of a Hundred Years religious war, initially between Sunni and Shia/Arab and Persian elements within the overall Islamic world.

This world-gone-mad situation should never have happened. It was only the defeat of Lyndon LaRouche's Strategic Defense Initiative that made this all possible. And it was the efforts of a nest of British agents in the leading policy-making circles in Moscow and Washington that led to the ultimate defeat of the LaRouche SDI, and led directly to the world mess that we now face. It is appropriate to take a fresh look at those event from the late 1970s through the 1980s and 1990s, because it is only a reversal of those disastrous policy blunders, and the crushing defeat of those British agents, typified by Yuri Andropov and Mikhail Gorbachov on the Soviet Russian side, and George Shultz on the U.S. Side, that offers any last-moment hope for averting the final plunge into a civilizational dark age.

LaRouche's SDI was a stroke of grand strategy, which was initiated by him personally in 1977, as part of LaRouche's overall effort to defeat the Trilateral Commission's Zbigniew Brzezinski use of Jimmy Carter's Administration drive to provoke a nuclear confrontation with the Soviet Union. LaRouche's success in exposing, and thus preventing such a thermonuclear showdown, gradually drew in a patriotic circle of largely former World War II OSS veterans, typified by William Casey and Max Corvo, who provided certain backing at the point that LaRouche came out with his original 1977 proposal for U.S.-Soviet collaboration on new physical principles system of ballistic missile defense, to end, forever, the era of thermonuclear mutually assured destruction.

In collaboration with those OSS veterans, many in and around the first Reagan Administration (1981-1985), LaRouche successfully won over President Reagan to his ballistic missile defense proposal for American-Soviet scientific cooperation across a spectrum of frontier areas of science and technology. On March 23, 1983, President Reagan delivered his historic nationwide television address, proposing joint development of a Strategic Defense Initiative with Moscow, as well as traditional American allies in Europe, in Japan and Ibero-America.

When then-Soviet Premier Yuri Andropov rejected Reagan and LaRouche's SDI offer, he literally doomed the Soviet Union to near-term destruction. Andropov's action in rejecting Reagan's SDI proposal, knowing that it came from LaRouche, was an act of supreme treason against the interests of the Soviet Union, a treason expressed during that decade, by a witting British agent, an Andropov successor, Mikhail Gorbachov. This was shown again in Gorbachov's role at the October 1986 Reykjavic, Iceland conference, where he teamed up with British agent George Shultz, then the U.S. Secretary of State, to attempt to get President Reagan to abandon the SDI.

Thus, the moment that Andropov rejected the Reagan offer of March 23, 1983, the Soviet Union was economically doomed. The SDI proposal offered the Soviet Union the last and only chance to shift from an economically ruinous war policy, to a science-driver policy that would have led to a transformation of the Soviet economy. The argument that it was the Afghanistan War that wasted the U.S.S.R. is false, in the sense that the Afghan war folly was a consequence of the failure of Andropov to take the Reagan SDI offer.

The current totally collapsed state of the U.S. economy, the economies of Western Europe, and the economies of all of the nations of Ibero-America, is the direct result of the failure to realize LaRouche's SDI policy. At the heart of that policy was a dramatic shift in productivity, driven by a tremendous expansion of the space program. Under LaRouche's SDI program, the United States would have gone through an explosion of technological progress. The Soviet Union would have gone through a dramatic economic transformation. France, Germany, and Italy would have prospered. In every case, there were leading political circles who were allied with LaRouche in a global movement for the implementation of the LaRouche science-driver SDI. These included several of the leading figures within the wartime French Resistance, who championed the LaRouche SDI within the French military, among other policy circles.

Instead of that bright future, we got the collapse of the entire Soviet Union/Warsaw Pact, which was directly and exclusively caused by the British agentry of such as Andropov and Gorbachov. Once Andropov had turned down President Reagan's offer, the Soviet Union was thus doomed to an early implosion.

LaRouche estimated, in a series of "Global Showdown" EIR Special Reports, that the Soviet system would expire in five-to-six years after the rejection of SDI.

That is precisely what happened. The competitive defensive arms race, combined with the exhaustion collapse of the entire Comecon/Warsaw Pact brought down the Soviet system. The Afghan War was symptomatic of the collapse phase, not the cause.

In the West, the failure to secure the Reagan-LaRouche SDI was pivotal to a similar disintegration process, which merely played out over a relatively longer period of time, reaching the break point in 2007-2008, as best demonstrated in LaRouche's two Triple Curve functions. Now we are at endgame, facing a final plunge into a dark age, potentially far worse than the dark age that wiped out Europe in the 14th Century, as the willful result of Venetian policies. The very survival of humanity depends on learning the lessons of LaRouche's SDI grand strategy, which, today, is at the heart of the Four Powers plan to defeat the same British Empire that employed agents like Shultz, Andropov and Gorbachov, to kill the SDI during the 1980s.