"...These folks are playing the Grand Chessboard, and their logic is ‘you cannot make an omelet without breaking eggs,’ by which I mean that the losses of the combatant sides are merely collateral damage in a much needed realignment of the World Order that takes America down from its pedestal. Quite apart from the cynicism that underlies such position-taking..."

A pirouetting reversal of the truth considering that the "Grand Chessboard" was developed years with the very purpose of keeping America on its pedestal. One of their favourite strategists, Russian hating Polish American "Biggy" Brzeziński 26 years ago even named his book dealing with exactly this: "The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and its Geostrategic Imperatives" ffs...

-Interestingly enough "Biggy"wasn't quite as stupid as the present lot. Here's a pertinent quote:

"...a coalition allying Russia with both China and Iran can develop only if the United States is shortsighted enough to antagonize China and Iran simultaneously.”

-Now, there's the hubris that will lead to nemesis.