Graham Fuller, a former US diplomat and CIA official, is a co-signer of a Nov. 5 Alert Memorandum to President Trump released by the Steering Group of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS), which warns President Trump against plunging the U.S. into “a wider and/or `forever’ war” with Venezuela. EIR Ibero-American Editor Dennis Small interviewed Fuller on Nov. 7, noting the urgency of the issue, as the USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier group is currently on its way across the Atlantic towards the Venezuelan coast, where it is expected to arrive Nov. 11—12. Fuller explained the reason for the VIPS warning: “What’s going on here? Why, in the middle of an appalling genocidal war in Gaza,” is the Trump administration considering a new war? The VIPS statement is meant as “a warning shot across the bow to suggest we’re drifting into another of these classic scenarios of a war that seems relatively pointless, cannot possibly achieve anything, and ends up miring the U.S. in a true quagmire.” Fuller emphasized that Russia, China and other nations of the Global South, such as the BRICS, no longer accept a world in which “the U.S. asserts its right to act with impunity.” A new paradigm of global relations is being demanded, and is needed. He stated that the U.S. “butting heads” with China and Russia is the wrong approach, and must give way to a change in the “potential nature of international relations… I want to emphasize, above all else, the question of human agency, which Helga Zepp-LaRouche has talked about… We’re not simply billiard balls on a table.” The U.S. has to change, Fuller concluded; above all “it’s a mind-set issue.”