On Wednesday, April 13, New York Times readers were greeted by what was described as a terrifying prospect: France’s globalist banker-President Emmanuel Macron could be replaced by self-described French patriot Marine Le Pen in a runoff election as soon as April 24. If this were to happen, it would knock a giant hole in the oligarchy’s scorched earth regime change drive against Russia’s President Putin—which is crashing the U.S. and world economy far more than it is damaging Russia.