The Conscience of One Can Save the World: From Thermonuclear Annihilation to a New Paradigm of Peace

The beast-man logic of the Epstein Class, the “might makes right” forever wars, and the economic disintegration of the trans-Atlantic sector has pushed humanity to the brink of thermonuclear annihilation. As retired German General and Chairman of the NATO Military Committee Harold Kujat has said, the military situation in the world is comparable to August 1914, where Europe sleepwalked right into World War I, leading to the deaths of over 15 million people. 

There is another future which presents itself: a new paradigm of peace and economic development. Individuals, who present diplomacy not merely as an absence of war, but as a discussion of development, can change the course of history for the better, as shown by Pope Leo XIV, President Xi Jinping, and others. An example of that was presented to Executive Intelligence Review by Amb. Celso Amorim, Special Advisor to the President of Brazil, who spoke of his nation’s role in forming a world dialogue of different nations, and preventing war. 

Pope Leo XIV, in a newly released collection of his speeches, “Disarmed and Disarming: Peace is a Gift,” underscored the point of how individuals, acting through moral conscience, have at times saved humanity from self-destruction, as one Soviet colonel did in September, 1983: 

“History has already seen us come close to nuclear catastrophe. Records recount that the decision of one man, Soviet official Stanislav Petrov, contributed to avoiding a possible global atomic war. It was 26 September 1983. The radars of the bunker near Moscow, where Petrov was on duty, signalled the launch of multiple intercontinental ballistic missiles from the United States toward the Soviet Union. However, it was an error of the Soviet satellite detection system. Petrov disobeyed orders and chose not to signal the presumed attack. It was a decision that was made with the conscience of someone who knew that that simple gesture could have caused millions of deaths. A world in which machines, albeit sophisticated and faster than us, are the ones to decide to bomb defenceless people would be truly frightening. The conscience of a single person can be worth the entire world.”

The situation which faced Stanislov Petrov, though not as direct, faces all of us today, as insanity and narcissism grips so-called “leaders” of the trans-Atlantic into destroying themselves, and the rest of humanity along with them. How do we make sure that their recklessness doesn’t destroy all of us? There is no room for mediocrity among citizens. A mass movement of citizens to replace thermonuclear annihilation with a new paradigm of economic development must emerge. You can mobilize yourself, and others, by tuning in today, and registering for the joint EIR and International Peace Coalition emergency roundtable, “Solve the Immigration Crisis with Development: What You Need to Know About the Strategic Significance of Pope Leo’s Encyclical.”