STRATEGIC ALERT Service

Leaders from NATO member countries have been scrambling to find reassuring explanations for the recent spate of Ukrainian drones that have hit member countries of the Alliance. But not Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico, who took the occasion to warn of the clear danger that a major war could break out, perhaps triggered by a minor incident, just because of […]

A new party was inaugurated in Greece on May 21 that could break the slavishly pro-NATO, pro-EU consensus of the New Democracy government led by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. Named Hope for Democracy, the party is led by Maria Karystianou, a medical doctor who became a national figure as a leader of the families of those killed in the 2023 […]

Ambassador Prof. Dr. Manuel Hassassian, former Palestinian ambassador to the U.K., Hungary, and Denmark, wrote a lengthy analysis of the regional and international military, geopolitical and economic effects of the war in Iran, on AmmanNet.net on May 21. Ambassador Hassassian, who has endorsed the Oasis Plan during several Schiller Institute conferences and interviews, is now promoting it in other media, […]

After SpaceX successfully launched the third version of its giant Starship rocket on May 22, China launched its Shenzhou-23 to the Tiangong space station on May 24, which rendezvoused with the space station one day later. It’s clear that the new space race has begun. The United States intends to send a man to the Moon by 2028, the last […]

As our editorial board will be attending the Schiller Institute conference in Berlin on May 30-31, and subsequent discussions, the next issue of the Strategic Alert will be dated June 11. We invite our readers to attend that conference in person, if possible, or to view the videos once they are posted on schillerinstitute.com and on the SI pages on […]

On May 17, Schiller Institute chair Helga Zepp-LaRouche issued an open letter to all governments represented at the United Nations which is being circulated internationally, in view of the high-level open debate that China, as rotating president of the UN Security Council will convene on May 26, under the theme “Upholding the Purposes and Principles of the UN Charter and […]

The outlines of a policy to resolve the Iran war and address the regional crisis were discussed and elaborated at the EIR Emergency Roundtable Dialogue (“The Iran War and the ‘Controlled Disintegration’ of the World Economy”) on May 15 (cf. above). Former Prime Minister of Türkiye Ahmet Davutoğlu posited that bilateral U.S.-Iran negotiations alone cannot resolve the regional crisis, arguing […]

The long-awaited summit between Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping in Beijing on May 14-15 ended with no spectacular breakthroughs announced, but hopefully with a gain in international stability. In welcoming his American counterpart, the Chinese President posed the fundamental question to be answered: “Can China and the United States transcend the so-called ‘Thucydides Trap’ and forge a new paradigm […]

Despite the growing number of warnings, European leaders, led by the so-called Coalition of the Willing, are still not looking to engage in diplomacy with Russia. On the contrary, the rearmament drive and a war economy are their stated priorities, sold to the public under the narrative that Russia is preparing to attack Europe as soon as possible. What remains […]

Germany and Ukraine will jointly develop long-range drones, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius proclaimed during an unannounced visit to Kyiv on May 11, where he signed a “Brave Germany” program along with Ukrainian Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov. Berlin has emerged as Ukraine’s largest single military donor, after the U.S. switched from donating weapons directly to Ukraine to selling them to […]