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Cardinal Richelieu foresees Russia’s victory in Ukraine As Kissinger once said, to be an enemy of America is dangerous – but to be a friend is fatal by Spengler   May 28, 2022 Cardinal Richelieu thinks Russia has checkmated Ukraine. Image: Wikipedia NEW YORK – The custom-built Oculus headset delivered to my door by a hooded monk seemed to malfunction. The palace on the Place de Vosges appeared once again in the Metaverse but in black and white rather than bright cartoon colors, with less furniture and fewer objects d’art, with drab walls unadorned by the paintings I had admired at our last meeting. A bit uncertain on my feet I wandered about the virtual-reality residence until I nearly stumbled on, or rather walked through, the translucent ghost of Cardinal Richelieu, the evil genius of 17 th century France and master strategist of the Thirty Years’ War. “Please accept my pardon for my reduced circumstances,” the C...

From Paris to Karachi – Regime Change is In the Air Tom Luongo There is nothing good about war. On this point all civilized people can agree. So, those that support the ‘current thing’ can stop reading right about…. Now. But one of the things war does is expose everyone’s real intentions. Even though the first casualty of war is the truth, nothing clears the air more than than troops and tanks crossing political borders and forcing people to react to such a thing. Since the beginning of Russia’s “Special Military Operation” in Ukraine,  nee  invasion, there’s been an acceleration of every conflicting agenda on the world stage, with mixed results for all involved, including Russia. As I’ve talked about at length, this is a conflict of existential proportions for every major player. From the Neocons in the US/UK foreign policy establishment to  Davos  and the EU, from the terminally corrupt grifters in Congress to Putin’s inner circle in the Kremlin. Ukraine represents...