As a result of a series of meetings between Russian and U.S. officials to work out a peace plan for Ukraine, leading officials in the Atlanticist institutions of Europe have expressed their unhappiness, outright rejection and in some cases, downright hysteria in response to their coming defeat in the NATO-launched conflict against Russia, begun, not in 2022, but in 2014 with the overthrow of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych by NATO-backed, neo-Nazi forces in Kiev.

The latest of these U.S.-Russian meetings occurred on Tuesday between President Putin and U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff, where both sides expressed satisfaction with the discussion and the progress. This coincided with a meeting between Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Foreign Minister of the People’s Republic of China Wang Yi in Moscow, to proceed with the 20th round of Russian-Chinese consultations on strategic security.

Now, today, Vladimir Putin has arrived in India for a two-day state visit. The Times of India reports that President Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi are expected to comprehensively review all aspects of this "special and priority strategic partnership," including defense cooperation, energy security, trade expansion, and collaboration in emerging fields.

Do these meetings represent a return to the spirit of the RIC (Russia-India-China) format promoted by late former Russian Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov? This design later became the BRICS (Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa) format, which has now put forth an alternative to 500 years of colonialism imposed upon the nations of the Global South, in the form of mutually beneficial trade agreements and cooperation in economic projects to the benefit of all nations. The Schiller Institute, under the 40+ year leadership of Helga Zepp-LaRouche, has put forth the idea of a new security and development architecture. This replaces the system of geopolitics with something more in tune, namely, what Russian President Vladimir Putin recently termed a “polyphonic” system where the economic, social, and political order is brought into cohesion with the lawfulness of the physical universe.

This notion of universal harmony is based upon that of the fifteenth century scientist, diplomat, and cardinal Nicholas of Cusa. It is Cusa’s method of the “Coincidence of Opposites” which was recently brought to the world’s attention by Pope Leo XIV in his Oct. 25th Jubilee Audience sermon. The same Pope has made significant travels to Lebanon, Türkiye, and other nations in the past days, in an effort to revive this principle of diplomacy. EIR researcher Bill Jones will be on tonight to discuss the significance of the Pope’s recent trips, and the mobilization which can be brought to bear on institutions around the world to evolve from the system of geopolitics into a new security and development architecture.