Dare to Be Wise: the Choice Is Ours

LaRouche movement organizers near the United Nations distributing hundreds of copies of Zepp-LaRouche’s open letter to delegates and heads of state.

Sept. 29, 2026 (EIRNS)—“We are experiencing…the end of the epoch of five hundred years of colonialism,” Helga Zepp-LaRouche observed in a Sept. 21 open letter to heads of state and delegations at the UN General Assembly. "If we, as the human species, want to prevent this tumultuous transition period from ending up in a new world war, we have to replace geopolitical confrontation with a completely new paradigm, the vision of ONE humanity. It is the same question which was discussed during the time of the young American Republic, in the Federalist Papers: Can mankind govern itself?

“If this question is to be answered affirmatively in the time of thermonuclear weapons, we must establish an entirely new paradigm: The idea of the one humanity first, must be put above all particular interests.”

Indeed, with an increasingly desperate Western elite watching its unipolar system disintegrate, and with the expiration of the New START treaty and other nuclear safeguards, humanity is closer to the cliff of nuclear annihilation than ever before. On Tuesday, at the United Nations High-Level Meeting on Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, nation after nation from the Global Majority raised its voice to call for the permanent elimination of nuclear weapons, for the U.S. and Russia to put a new New START back in place, and to affirm the right of all nations to peaceful nuclear energy.

The representative from Kazakhstan, a nation which voluntarily gave up the world’s fourth-largest nuclear arsenal, put the new paradigm principle of security quite plainly: “Our experience has taught us a simple truth: security cannot be built on the threat of annihilation. It must be built on trust, dialogue, and responsible choices,” he stated.

The Chinese representative urged that, “the ultimate realization of a world free of nuclear weapons serve[s] the common interests of humanity.” He also called on the countries with the largest arsenals to take the lead and dramatically reduce their stockpiles, noting that, “a certain country keeps adjusting its nuclear policy, stubbornly maintains a massive nuclear arsenal, constantly enhances its nuclear deterrence and warfighting capabilities, [and] strengthens nuclear alliances.”

As Pope Leo XIV told 80,000 young people in Paris last Friday, “it is not enough merely to shun evil: We must choose the good…. Choosing the good is the proper act of freedom, by which it is realized, refined and matured. To make the right choices, remember this principle: The good gives life; it never takes it away.”

In his state visit to Washington last week, Chinese President Xi Jinping expressed the same principle when he told President Trump that the Thucydides Trap can be overcome—that the two nations’ leaders could choose a completely different mode of relating to one another, rooted in a concept of win-win cooperation.

This choice is not—thankfully—one put merely to the mercurial President Trump; the American people, the common good of which is the basis of its sovereign power, must step up and choose a different pathway: one out of permanent war and toward development.

In an unusual move, on Sept. 29, Iran’s IRGC released an open letter to the American people, asking Americans to consider the costly wars of recent decades, which the letter says, truthfully, “have brought nothing but misery to the US economy and the American people.” As quoted by TASS, IRGC Spokesman Brigadier General Hossein Mohebbi observed that “if the US spent at least 10% or 5% of all its expenditure on its military campaigns against other countries or put the money into development in these countries, the US would be a favorite.”

This is the choice before us: Will humanity overcome the disease that is geopolitics and zero-sum thinking? Will we choose to be human and build a new kind of relations among nations and peoples?

LaRouche movement organizers were in front of the UN today, urging people to do just that and distributing hundreds of copies of Zepp-LaRouche’s open letter, and independent presidential candidate Diane Sare continues to spearhead the fight in the United States to answer the question of whether mankind can govern itself with a resounding “yes”—an answer upon which the future of all humanity depends.