Tea at Trianon: Trump’s Strategic Masterclass

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Friday, April 17, 2026

Trump’s Strategic Masterclass

From Tierney's Real News:

Many people still think President Trump’s recent foreign policy moves are scattershot — a tariff here, a blockade there. But if you zoom out, and look past the bluster, the bigger picture becomes clear: there’s a method to it all, a global strategy to stop the BRICS nations, especially Communist China and Russia and Iran, from tightening their grip on the world’s oil, trade routes and resources.
Trump’s not reacting. He’s positioning. While the fake news still chases quick photo-ops and weak “summits,” Trump’s locking down key economic and military chokepoints that decide who really holds power in the modern world.
President Trump’s recent moves against Iran, Venezuela, and even Greenland aren’t random. They’re smart, calculated steps in a bigger plan to stop the Islamo-Communist BRICS nations - led by Communist China and Russia and backed by the UN - from controlling America and the world. (Read more.)