Today, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Czech President Milos Zeman stood side by side in Prague to extol the Czech Republic as the new “gateway” for the One Belt-One Road to the CEEc (Central and Eastern European Countries), and beyond that, to all Europe. They oversaw the signing of cooperative economic deals, and spoke of cultural exchanges for a bright future.

Though unspoken, what came across loud and clear, is the stark contrast of this win-win, mutually beneficial approach with the self-destructive track that Europe, and the Trans-Atlantic, are otherwise bent on—the financial blow-out, austerity, suffering, militarization and potential thermonuclear holocaust. Today, EU’s Jean-Claude Juncker even announced a pseudo-“Silk Road” EU plan, of no content, and piddling resources.

Again, in contrast to this doom, Russian President Putin yesterday spoke at length by phone with Iranian President Rouhani, about follow-on actions against ISIS in the region, now that the Syrian Army, with Russian air assistance, has driven out ISIS from Palmyra, and re-taken the ancient city. The Syrian Army has begun to forge eastward against the terrorists. Russian experts have even volunteered to help restore the antiquities in Palmyra. The images of the liberated, ancient cities of Palmyra and Aleppo, are moralizing millions of people the world over, yearning to vanquish terrorism, and restore hope.

The reality that this can be done—and that we are at a phase shift worldwide, was stressed today by Hussein Askary, EIR Arabic Editor, who instigated and translated the newly released Arabic version of EIR’s Special Report The New Silk Road Becomes the World Land-Bridge. Askary, speaking by conference call to associates across Europe, pointed to the example this week in Yemen, under battle conditions, a reading group is underway for a weekly reading of the Land-Bridge report. This indicates the shift, he said. In Yemen, people being bombarded by the old order, are meeting to read the materials of the new order!

Askary added, look at what we have achieved. We are not telling people ‘good news;’ we are not frightening people with ‘bad news;’ we are not giving them good news to make them feel better. We are creating a new geometry in the world, with Russia, China, and others. We have to get people off this idea of the British order as having so much money, so much media power. They are wrong. There is a new dynamic in the world and we are providing the ideas for that dynamic. We must convey to our supporters that we are changing the world. They should turn their TV’s off, and stop listening to the commentators who were wrong about the economy, wrong about Syria, wrong about everything. We must convey to people that we are operating in a new geometry.

Askary referenced the instructions which the head of the Finnish resistance movement against the Nazi occupation gave to his fighters: read Plato’s Dialogues when resting, because that will empower you to fight the enemy.