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The Last Move is the Checkmate
[This article by Mojmir Babacek was originally published by Global Research. You can read it here.]
In the book where Donald Trump presented his election program, China was mentioned over 600 times, and his writing made it clear that if elected, defeating China in the global power struggle would be the main goal of US foreign policy.
Trump’s plan was to control the countries supplying energy resources to China, making the Chinese economy dependent on US approval of oil, petroleum products, and natural gas deliveries from those countries. This way, the US could control Chinese industrial productivity and impose numerous decisions on China. Russia was China’s largest supplier of oil and natural gas. Donald Trump concluded he could subdue China by making Russia its ally against China, by leaving Russia at least part of Ukraine that aligned with Russia, not the EU, when ending the Ukrainian war.
He began implementing his plan to control China by taking over one of China’s major oil suppliers—Venezuela, which had the largest oil reserves in the world.
After capturing and imprisoning the Venezuelan president and his wife, the Venezuelan vice president Delcy Rodríguez submitted to him. Reuters reported on August 31, 2026, that the North American Blue Energy Partners (NABEP) would gain control over several Venezuelan oil fields previously operated by five Chinese companies and one Russian company. According to the agency, this was part of 14 new contracts that the Venezuelan government was handing over to NABEP as part of a broad oil agreement between Washington and Caracas. In total, NABEP was expected to gain control over 17 oil projects in Venezuela, which the company planned to develop for further oil deliveries to the United States. After the capture of President Nicolás Maduro, whom the USA holds in prison, it was clear that Delcy Rodríguez feared Donald Trump so much that she handed over Venezuela’s national wealth to the USA without resistance. The West, at least in the media, refused to acknowledge that a theft of enormous scale had occurred.
In the next step toward controlling China, Donald Trump, together with Israel, carried out an airstrike on February 28, 2026, targeting a meeting of top Iranian officials, killing most of Iran’s most prominent politicians, including Ayatollah Khamenei. Among other things, this was a clear display of Western intolerance toward the Muslim faith. Reuters reported on September 14, 2026, that US President Donald Trump suggested on Sunday the United States could stay in Iran and “keep the oil”, drawing a parallel with a U.S. Push to take control of a fifth of Venezuela’s vast oil reserves.
“We’ll ultimately get out (of Iran), unless we decide to stay and keep the oil like Venezuela,” Trump said and added that the U.S. revenue from Venezuela has “paid for the war many times.”
Iran supplied 90% of its oil production to China. On April 12, 2026, the American television network CNN reported, citing three sources from U.S. intelligence agencies, that China was preparing to supply Iran with new portable air defense systems in the coming weeks, using a third country to conceal the weapons’ true origin. Russia, too, had no reason not to supply Iran with weapons and intelligence while the U.S. was supplying weapons and intelligence to Ukraine in its war against Russia. Moreover, Russia was receiving weapons from Iran. In February 2026, The Financial Times reported that Russia had concluded a secret agreement with Iran to supply 500 “Willow” portable anti aircraft launchers and 2,500 9M336 missiles between 2027 and 2029, worth 495 million euros.
Due to Chinese and Russian opposition to his attack on Iran, Donald Trump is hesitating to escalate the war against Iran and continues to seek ways to gradually secure Russia’s alliance with the U.S. against Iran and, later, against China. He is testing whether he can sway Russia by offering to manufacture missiles for the Patriot systems on Ukrainian territory and generally siding with Ukraine and the European Union in the Ukrainian war to reclaim historically Russian territories—territories that, according to public opinion polls prior to 2014, identified with Russia and rose up against their integration into the European Union in 2014. Russia ultimately responded in kind to the threat of supplying state-of-the-art military technology to Ukraine. On September 2, 2026, the Financial Times reported that Russia is secretly helping Iran develop a new class of supersonic guided missiles that will enable them to fly several times faster than the speed of sound and be used as anti-ship missiles, which could threaten U.S. warships in the Middle East. The article stated:
“Iran has conducted flight tests of a ramjet propulsion system, although there is no evidence that the hypersonic guided missile developed with Russian assistance has already been deployed.”
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov reflected on Trump’s attempt to win over Russia by threatening to side with Ukraine in its conflict with Russia in June 2026, when he told Russian media that the U.S. was not acting as a mediator in the Russian-Ukrainian war, but as a country supporting Ukraine, and that “this war, which began under Biden, has become Trump’s war.”
Another threat to Russia had been pending in the U.S. House of Representatives for some time: a bill imposing sanctions on Russia, under which Donald Trump could have imposed 100 percent tariffs on goods imported from countries that purchase Russian oil and natural gas. When Russia failed to halt its support for Iran, the U.S. Congress passed the bill, and the U.S. president signed it into law on September 19, 2026. He stated, however, that he would apply the provisions of the law only if necessary. Supplies of missiles for the Patriot systems to Ukraine remained uncertain due to the U.S. military having depleted a large portion of its stockpiles during the war with Iran. Their production on Ukrainian territory had still not been approved by Donald Trump in the event that Russia stopped supplying Iran with weapons for its defense against U.S. aggression and decided to become a U.S. ally against China.
On Monday, September 14, 2026, the EU began negotiations with Canada regarding closer ties with the country, clearly attempting to expand its sphere of influence to the U.S. border, much as it had attempted to penetrate Russia’s borders in Ukraine. CNBC reported on September 17 that Donald Trump threatened the EU on Wednesday with new tariffs or trade restrictions following offers of associate membership for Canada. NBC, meanwhile, reported on September 18—based on communications with seven current and former Western officials—that the U.S. Department of Defense is allegedly considering a drastic reduction in the U.S. presence in Europe, which could affect one-third of all U.S. forces—approximately 25,000 troops. According to one U.S. partner and another source, the reduction could be even more drastic—more than half, or about 40,000 troops.
The EU is increasingly provoking Russia into attacking it through its efforts to seize Ukrainian territories that aligned themselves with Russia in 2014 and rebelled against their integration into the EU. Without U.S. support, however, the EU faces the threat of a confrontation with Russian nuclear weapons. Following the American threat, the EU even made such a concession to the U.S. that Donald Trump was able to post the following on his social media platform, Truth Social, on September 19:
The United States of America has entered into an Agreement with The Kingdom of Denmark, and Greenland, that gives the United States permanent control over security, and all other needs, in Greenland, completely addressing ALL of our many U.S. concerns. There will be NO COST to the United States! At my direction, we worked with representatives of Denmark and Greenland to guarantee that the United States will FOREVER have the complete ability to do what is necessary in Greenland in order to secure and defend the security of Greenland, and the United States of America. Additionally, from now on, no U.S. adversary can EVER have a base in Greenland, have a military presence in Greenland, or make sensitive investments in Greenland, without our express written approval.
The agreement was signed on Tuesday, September 22, 2026. In doing so, the EU largely ceded sovereignty over its northern territory to the U.S. in the hope that the U.S. would help it conquer new territories in Eastern Europe. However, the U.S. certainly has no intention of allowing the EU to grow and develop into its competitor in the struggle for world power. U.S. plan is to become the sole superpower that will rule the world and reap the benefits and money to achieve even greater power over the world. French President Emmanuel Macron stated upon his arrival on the island of Saint-Pierre that the island territory of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon in the Atlantic Ocean near Canada is French, after U.S. President Donald Trump published a map on which the archipelago is marked with the American flag.
All in all, the war for new territories and a new division of the world continues and is constantly escalating. Only China has not yet joined it by attacking Taiwan.
The danger of a nuclear war is also constantly growing, because the global public is not protesting against this prospect and is passively listening to the war propaganda of its politicians.
Unfortunately, if a nuclear war does eventually break out, there will be no further chance to stop the struggle for power in the world. A minor nuclear conflict could serve as a final warning, after which politicians might still agree to reform the United Nations so that the veto power of the major powers no longer applies, decisions on interventions against aggressive states are made by a majority vote of the UN General Assembly, and all other military pacts are abolished. If the EU, Russia, China, and India had agreed on this solution before the final catastrophe, the U.S. would have had no choice but to abandon its plans for world domination and join them. Small countries would thus regain their sovereignty. Ahead of the UN General Assembly session, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan also put forward similar proposal in an article for the American news agency Bloomberg.
Such a UN would be able to monitor the dangers the UN has already warned about—namely, that artificial intelligence not be used against people, including the global control of human brain activity by a single victorious superpower. Donald Trump has opposed the slowdown in the development of artificial intelligence proposed by a number of companies in the field, which is intended to prevent its catastrophic evolution. Given his desire for world domination, it is certain that he would also want to use modern neurotechnologies—linked to artificial intelligence—to rule the world, even though the UN has already warned against their misuse. In the U.S., a project of this type was published by the War College as early as 1994. Donald Trump is undoubtedly aware of this potential use of artificial intelligence to control the brain activity of opponents of U.S. global dictatorship (p. 13, penultimate paragraph). He is actively involved in keeping it secret from the American and global public so that he can ultimately carry it out.
[Image: Screenshot from UNGA]
If the readers want to help to prevent such future from happening they can sign the petition to the European parliament requesting it to ban the remote manipulation of the human nervous system by neurotechnologies HERE.
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Mojmir Babacek was born in 1947 in Prague, Czech Republic. Graduated in 1972 at Charles University in Prague in philosophy and political economy. In 1978 signed the document defending human rights in communist Czechoslovakia „Charter 77“. Since 1981 until 1988 lived in emigration in the USA. Since 1996 he has published articles on different subjects mostly in the Czech and international alternative media.
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