Mike Billington addresses the dramatic "phase shift" in history taking place, as the Afghan crisis marks the utter failure of the "regime change" era of the British Empire and their assets in the US, but also the opportunity it presents for Lyndon LaRouche's concept of the Four Powers to unite for global development on the model of China's Belt and Road Initiative. He will focus on the intense hysteria in the United Kingdom, terrified that the Empire could indeed come to an end were the US to break from the Empire's grip, join with China and Russia in the development of Afghanistan, and by implication the rest of the world, as LaRouche's new paradigm becomes the necessary reality for human progress.