Humanity Can Either Reach a Higher Level, Or End Up in Flames

Today, it was announced by the Kremlin that work is underway to set up a meeting between Presidents Putin and Trump. Yuri Ushakov said to reporters from Tass: “We have launched work to discuss the parameters of such a meeting and the venue for it jointly with our American colleagues now.” The Aug. 6 meeting between special envoy Steve Witkoff and President Putin, along with this announcement, marks a significant step in the right direction towards ensuring the normalization of U.S.-Russian relations. On the other hand, however, Trump is currently surrounded by hostile influences in every direction—such as his financial advisors who are pushing him to use tariffs against the BRICS+ nations, which, contrary to Trump himself, are not “dead economies” but are emerging as a new source of growth and vitality in the world. With the collaboration of the U.S. and Europe with the nations of the Global South, a new post-colonial era of growth can replace the dead-end, geopolitical order which is pushing the world to World War III.

The following petition by the Schiller Institute, “An Urgent Appeal to Presidents Xi Jinping, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin!” makes the case that the enormous potential to shape the present period can be realized if a meeting between Presidents Trump, Putin, and Xi at the upcoming Sep. 3 celebrations in Beijing commemorating the defeat of Japan in World War II occurs. An invitation has already been extended by China to Donald Trump. The petition states:

“There is a great historic opportunity in front of us, where the leaders of three great nations could send a powerful signal to the world. If President Xi Jinping would invite President Trump to the military parade scheduled for September 3rd in Beijing's Tiananmen Square to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, and President Trump would accept the invitation, as President Putin is also expected to be present, the people of the world could find hope that those three leaders would open a new chapter in the history of humanity. From 1941 till 1945 the US and the Soviet Union were allied against German national socialism, while in the same interval China and the US were allies against Japanese militarism. If the three Presidents would attend the military parade on September 3rd, and together renew that sacred oath “Never again!,” it would send the strongest message possible to the entire globe, that a new era of peace will begin.

President Trump was elected for the second time, with a mandate to make peace; to end the forever wars of his predecessors, and this is what the Global Majority expects from President Xi and President Putin.”

The petition can be circulated around the world as part of the fight to shape the dynamic in the next weeks and months. Tomorrow, the International Peace Coalition will bring together important voices from the U.S. intelligence and military sectors. Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern, NSA whistleblowers Bill Binney and Kirk Wiebe, and Lt. Col Anthony Aguilar—who has recently blown the whistle on the notorious Gaza Humanitarian Foundation for letting civilians in the Gaza Strip be massacred by the IDF—will attend the meeting at 11am EDT.