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Thursday, April 9, 2020
Gorbachev: Time to Revise the Entire Global Agenda
Yes it is time. Global demilitarization is actually within reach. It can certainly start with a global border commision. and the creation of ethnic City States for those unable to now cooperate.
The real job will return to the elimination of global poverty itself. I want to do this while appling the Rule of Twelve to optimize local community governance and also to manage credit creation vat that level.
My point is that all countriues are able to elect a trusted spokes person to represent their local consensus. These folks can assemble in order to establish a global governance communion that is capable of making decissions for all.
The first priority will be to reset the military system. We want to retain a local miltia system as an effective youth traing system that actually subsumes all as part of life's passage. Weapons training at this level can be downgraded to the practical for paersonal use and even protection. These are tools after all.
The second level is advanded forces who train up to an extreme level. Their initial task will be to globally unify and impose local compliance of the general dispensation. A global military may be a million personel. This more than enough to stop rogue force accumulation while been supported by the militas.
It also creates a natural platform for the Space Force where manpower will be needed to man our fleet of gravity ships.
Obviously this means the USA and its core allies must provide the initial nucleous. However, as this whole process is implimented, i expect all forms of conflict to simply disappear. A lot of this will be helped along through the Rule of Twelve which manages influence from the ground up and naturalloy chokes of conflict.
Gorbachev: Time to Revise the Entire Global Agenda
A: I think I took it the way most people did. Initially, there was hope that it could be controlled, localized. But things took a very different turn and the epidemic spread far and wide. Unprecedented measures and decisions became necessary. Leaders, citizens and international organizations found themselves in an extremely difficult situation. All of this will have to be thoroughly analyzed, but the priority now is to take things in hand and defeat this new, vicious enemy.
Q: How do you assess the measures now being taken?
A: The main concern must be people’s security and saving people’s lives. I assume that the steps now being taken are based on science and the advice of the most competent experts. Right now they are practically unanimous that lockdown is necessary. This is something both the authorities and the people must accept. A lot depends on people’s behavior. Utmost responsibility and discipline is of the essence. Then we may hope that the worst could be avoided.
Q: Is it time yet for lessons learned? Do you agree that the world will never be the same?
A: That depends precisely on what lessons will be learned. I recall recent history of how we addressed the nuclear threat. We understood that it is our common enemy, a threat to all of us, and the leaders of two nations, the Soviet Union and the United States declared that a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought. Then came Reykjavik and the first treaties eliminating nuclear weapons. By now, 85% of those arsenals have been eliminated. We must continue along this path but we now see new challenges. Together with my friends in the Forum of Nobel Peace Laureates we have for years been calling for a radical rethinking of international politics. Let me quote from out appeal adopted back in 2005:
“Focusing on meeting human needs and having a reverence for life are the foundation of human security. Excessive military expenditures actually breeds insecurity. Two areas where funds need to be channeled by the international community are education and health, particularly regarding the scourges of AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis through both protection and prevention.” What could one add to this? Just the name of the new dreadful disease.
Over the past five years all we’ve been hearing is talk about weapons, missiles and airstrikes. But is it not clear by now that wars and the arms race cannot solve today’s global problems? War is a defeat, a failure of politics! This common tragedy has reminded us of the futility of trying to go into hiding and sit it out, ignoring the threats that we face. In today’s world, no one can hope to go into hiding!
And so I’ll never tire of repeating: We need to demilitarize world affairs, international politics and political thinking and reallocate funds from military purposes to the purposes serving human security. We need to rethink the very concept of security. Above all else, security should mean providing food, water, which is already in short supply, a clean environment and, as top priority, caring for people’s health.
To achieve human security we need to develop strategies, make preparations, plan and create reserves. This should be the responsibility of national leaders and leaders at all levels.
I believe that preparations should start now for an Emergency Session of the United Nations General Assembly, to be held as soon as the situation is stabilized. It should be about nothing less than revising the entire global agenda.
Q: Could I ask how things have changed for you and for the Gorbachev Foundation?
A: Of course we are complying with all requirements and we have had to start working from home. I am communicating with colleagues by phone and we have created a discussion platform on the web. We’ll be adapting to the new circumstances. I’ve been asked to write an additional chapter for the English edition of my book What Is At Stake Now, to account for the new developments. I have agreed and will work on it.
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