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Kerry is a 2 faced slime ball with his large carbon footprint.

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The sophistication pretended by the likes of Walter Lippmann is no substitute for those rare episodes of real prudence shown by leaders through history. The Tudors owed their ability to splurge and make war to the thrift and reserve of the first Tudor, the Winter King, sly Henry VII. The first Bourbon, Henry IV, despite his glamour image, craftily avoided mess in a time of total mess so his grandson could spend on Versailles and make endless wars. At least these guys tried.

Who among the CFR sophisticates has avoided mess? How many masterpiece analyses of strategy preceded the unbelievable tangle that is Syria 2025? At least wars in the Golden Triangle and Golden Crescent could yield lots of saleable white powder. Now it's just deep and penetrating geopolitical analysis followed by profitless mess. And there's AI to help with the mess! Foreign policy is like an ultimate Tesla, so full of complication and distraction nobody can drive it. Thanks Walter. Thanks Israeli data centres.

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