The following....including the preface....is from December of 2018:
Preface: What bothers me is that President Trump does seem to play chess......"take that pawn....take that pawn.....take that pawn.....ooh there's a knight....money money money"....but does he even realize that the opponent on the chess board makes moves also?
The famous Bobby Fischer/Boris Spassky world championship chess match was held in July and August of 1972. I was a month short of getting out of the army. There was really no job here in the states....at least in the short time anyway....for those who did what I did....so I was relegated to being an afternoon CQ for a few months....(CQ.....Charge of Quarters....one who simply watched the front door of the barracks while keeping a log). So I had ample time to follow the Fischer/Spassky match.
Bobby Fischer had an IQ of 180 as tabulated in 1958. Chess was his life. He learned Russian simply to be able to read about their chess....but his arrogance got the best of him as he totally and utterly collapsed later in his life.....making some of the most outrageous geopolitical statements imaginable.....and died at 64.....the number of spaces on a chess board.....but in chess.....he was a Michelangelo.
The Ukraine is not a member of NATO. Putin obviously wants that territory back in Soviet control. Yes...Soviet control. There's only one Soviet today.....Vladimir Putin....who watched intently President Trump's threatening comments on NATO. He knows very well how disunited these United States are today. He even knows of the chaos that an American military draft would look like. He knows that the times...they are a-changin'. What he doesn't know is the omniscience and omnipotence of Jesus Christ....or His words at the conclusion of the book of Revelation...."Behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me, to render to every man according to what he has done....I am the Alpha and the Omega....the first and the last....the beginning and the end." (Revelation 22:12)
Putin does know chess....and he knows an endgame when he sees one. Meanwhile the Communists in China look at Taiwan in much the same way as Putin looks at the Ukraine. We are applying pressure on China right now for a number of reasons but the primary reason is that they are limiting our profits back here at home. We are all about money right now. Odd isn't it.....how on the one hand we are told that we are the richest we have ever been....yet we are playing with fire to become even more rich? Whether he likes it or not....President Trump is in a chess game and is moving his pieces fast....not even knowing how some of them move....having no idea that a major piece can be purposely sacrificed to lure an opponent into checkmate....all this as a new world order evolves.
We really don't think that there will ever be any more world wars do we? Oh nations will threaten and jostle each other but wiser minds will prevail. That's the problem. The communists are patient....and they may be pragmatic....but they are wolves. Chess is called the Game of Kings....but Jesus Christ is the King of Kings......"And on His robe and on His thigh, He has a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS." Maranatha....Come, Lord Jesus! (Revelation 19:16)
Give glory to the LORD your God'
Before He brings darkness
and before your feet stumble....(Jeremiah 13:16a)
