Never Before, and Never Again
High-level American officials, such as the Pentagon’s Under Secretary for Policy Elbridge Colby, are avidly advocating lowering the threshold for nuclear war by promoting the use of tactical nuclear warheads. He and his muscle-headed boss Pete Hegseth swagger and threaten to use their “big stick” on all continents.
Aug. 16, 2026 (EIRNS)—Never before today has humanity stood so close to the precipice of our own avoidable annihilation, and never so close to being able to achieve a lasting solution to the causes of the crisis that has brought us to that precipice.
Last October 20th, Sergey Naryshkin, the head of Russia’s SVR foreign intelligence agency, warned: “The world is now experiencing the most fragile moment for international security since World War II.” He urged: “Our shared, and perhaps principal, task is to ensure that adaptation to the new reality proceeds without a major war, as has happened at previous historical stages.”
That appeal seems to have fallen on deaf ears in London and Washington.
In the ten months since that warning was issued, humanity has come closer and closer still to the precipice of such a global nuclear war. High-level American officials, such as the Pentagon’s Under Secretary for Policy Elbridge Colby, are avidly advocating lowering the threshold for nuclear war by promoting the use of tactical nuclear warheads. He and his muscle-headed boss Pete Hegseth swagger and threaten to use their “big stick” on all continents. In the Ukraine theater, NATO planes have now begun to directly engage and destroy drones they claim originated in Russia.
This is the big picture to have in mind when you consider the whys and wherefores of today’s prominent publication by the Russian news agency TASS of a substantive interview with U.S. independent presidential candidate Diane Sare, a decades-long associate of the renowned American statesman and economist Lyndon LaRouche. Publishing both English- and Russian-language wires on the Sare interview, TASS took careful note of her call for the U.S. to adopt a no-first-use nuclear policy, and her approach to constructive U.S.-Russian relations:
“It would be far more productive to revive the spirit of Alaska [where presidents Trump and Putin met on Aug. 15, 2025—ed.] and emphasize the enormous benefits to be reaped on both sides by cooperation in trade and development on such projects as the Bering Strait Tunnel and the Northern Sea Transport Route.”
The TASS wire on the Sare interview has already been picked up widely inside Russia. It will be duly weighed by those searching for an end to the policy insanity currently emanating from Washington and London.
As for a global solution, Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche has joined with others to urge Pope Leo XIV to call for an emergency international summit to guide the world away from the current path of war and potential nuclear disaster and to peacefully resolve the greatest crises facing humanity today.