Response on Threat of War

Professor Bao Shixui, the former director of the Institute for Study of Military Thought at the China Academy of Military Sciences, sent the following two-part question to Lyndon LaRouche on the occasion of the State of the Union address webcast. Prof. Bao is a retired senior colonel in the People's Liberation Army (born 1929), and in 1991 was one of six officers from across the Academy to receive the State Council's Award for his outstanding contribution to military science.

Questions:

"If Iran closes off the Strait of Hormuz at some point, will this immediately lead to a U.S.-Iran war? And since the United States just pulled away from the Iraq war, has the Obama Administration the actual possibility of opening another hopeless war in the Middle East?"

LaRouche's reply:

These are dangerous times, times in which simple truths are required above what might otherwise be considered as diplomacy. The actions against Libya taken on the orders of U.S.A. President Barack Obama were measures of warfare executed in violation of U.S. law, measures which would usually lead to Constitutional actions of punishment of the President by law. The willful murder of a captive of the powers which had launched war against Libya, was a great crime, but that was not the limit of that crime. The actions aimed to break up the nations of Libya and Iran, which have been recently pressed, were actually intended to set off the potential of a thermonuclear attack on Russia and other leading Eurasian nations, Russia and China most notably.

The facts of the case, and the principal features of their history are generally known among U.S. specialists in such matters.

In the meantime, fortunately, influential forces within the U.S. Presidential system have acted to check the brutal actions which had been intended by the British monarchy and its puppet-President of the United States, Barack Obama. Without such important U.S. opposition to British imperial interests centered in the British Crown, the world would have been already mired in a post-Muammar Gaddafi, London-directed Israeli attack on Iran, which was intended to prepare the way for a thermonuclear war against Russia, China, and other nations of Asia. Use of the concentration of the greatest mass of thermonuclear attack-capabilities directed against Russia and leading nations within Asia was intended to occur as sequels to military assaults against Libya and Iran. A so-called "independent" Israeli attack on Iran was intended to set off the actions leading into a thermonuclear world war, with a key role intended for naval forces deployed into both the eastern Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf or slightly pulled back currently.

These developments have proceeded under the influence of a general financial breakdown-crisis of the trans-Atlantic sector of the planet. The system of western and central Europe is presently in the process of disintegrating; the U.S.A. is immediately threatened, if not yet as desperately as Europe. I am persuaded that the present government of Russia is informed of most of the essentials of this global strategic situation.

The essential issue is this: Any major war among leading powers, and/or great combinations of powers will be thermonuclear in its essential features. If we can defeat such schemes as that, the greatest economic advances in world history will be an available option, including for the the trans-Pacific region. Under those conditions, the leading strategic theme of the immediately oncoming generations will be strategically space-oriented missions, such as defense of planet Earth against natural dangers in nearby Solar space, and a pattern of accelerating measures in space, including a thermonuclear-driven week-long travel of a manned vehicle from Earth to the most attractive goal for us, namely Mars.

—Lyndon