I remember reading this years ago, "And Libra shall see Hesperides reign."  Hesperides were the evening nymphs, and there mother was the night, Nyx.  We get the word "vespers" from "Hesperides." This might mean a transitioning into darkness.  I remember when JP II was pope and I counted the seven popes beginning with John XXIII, but it makes sense to begin the count with Pius XII as well.  

The 75.1 is Dupont's paragraph numbering.  Nostradamus' numbers are 4.5.

Let's say Hesperides is US, since Spain never held air and land superiority.

Why would he then switch to the Church hierarchy after referring to a political state ... vs. referring to a series of US Presidents?

And it does seem unclear who's doing the perishing, whether it's the US or the forces of Asia.

Nostradamus was a Jew and a false prophet.

Nostradamus was a Jew and a false prophet.

Others say he was a devout catholic.

I don't know if this means anything but I look up Daniel 9:24-25
Commentary was given
490 years ago King Henry XIII broke with Rome and established the Church of England.

Then there is Matthew 21:42-44

Yes. I know the Daniel commentary says 490 years. But that makes no sense. Read Daniel 9.

Daniel begins the chapter with a reference to the 70 YEARS prophecy of Jeremiah (mentioned in Jeremiah 25 and 29). So, that Jeremiah prophecy about 70 YEARS is the context of Daniel 9.

Daniel thinks he is living through the 70 YEARS of Jeremiah, but the Angel Gabriel visits him and corrects his mistaken assumption. Gabriel then explains that the 70 YEARS of Jeremiah is an "end times" prophecy, not a prophecy related to the time of Daniel. We know it is an "end times" prophecy because the "abomination of desolation" mentioned in Daniel 9 is also referred to by Jesus in Matthew 24 as related to the "end times."

Gabriel then restates the Jeremiah 70 YEARS prophecy in more detail. He says that it will occur over a period of 70 "shavuim," a Hebrew word that means many Shavuot [or Feast of Weeks]. There is one "Feast of Weeks" every year. So, Daniel's 70 "weeks" means "there will be 70 "Feasts of Weeks" during the period of the prophecy that he is going to discuss. This is just another way of saying the 70 Years of Jeremiah. The two periods/prophecies are equivalent.

Basically the counting of years of the Daniel 9 prophecy starts with the "announcement" the Vatican II Council ["to build up Jerusalem again"], which took place of January 25, 1959. So you can count the "Feast of Weeks" in 1959 as year number one. The seventieth "Feast of Weeks" will occur in 2028. So all of the prophecies discussed by Daniel 9 must be fulfilled sometime AFTER the "Feast of Weeks" in 2028 but BEFORE the "Feast of Weeks" in 2029. This year, 2025, will include the 66th "Feast of Weeks" of the Daniel prophecy.

The Third Secret text confirms essentially the same time frame. But rather than discussing the Vatican II Council, Our Lady commands that an "announcement" be made of the Third Secret text before 1960. And she then says that if the announcement is not made, then after 69 "Feast of weeks" [again "years"] the city, meaning Babylon/Rome [the Counterfeit Catholic Church] will be destroyed.

The quote from Matthew 21 refers to Jesus being the "stone which the builders rejected." Our Lady is saying that in the "end times" a similar "stone" will be "rejected" and will become the cornerstone. This is a reference to the Holy Pope prophecies. Simon bar Jona was nicknamed "Peter" or "Rock" by Jesus. So Our Lady is saying that a "Peter" in the "end times" will be "rejected" and become "the head of the corner." This prophecy can also be seen in St. Malachy's Prophecy of the Popes.