Last night, I played chess with my nephew. Neither of us is an expert, but we enjoy the game. It usually ends in checkmate. Similarly, in global politics, figures like Donald Trump use chess as a metaphor for strategy. With NATO and the EU involved, Trump’s moves spark questions about global security. Will Europe’s countermoves succeed, or will tensions escalate in this high-stakes game?

Last night, as usual at our house, I was playing chess with my twelve-year-old nephew. Neither of us knows much about chess, but fortunately we still.

Trump's Global Chess Game

see it as a board game. Sometimes we have to think a little longer about a move, but often that "deep thinking" is more of a way to get the other person out of concentration, and to show that a move has been thought through better than the other thinks, in short, to give the game a slightly more serious character. The game usually takes a little longer than we had estimated beforehand. What is always certain in advance is that the game will probably end in a checkmate of mine or my nephew!

Is checkmate always the end of the game?

In our case, checkmate is always the end of the game. We then shake hands, start a new game, and or clean up the chessboard and the chess pieces in the closet again. The chess equipment usually comes out of the closet a month later when another acquaintance or family member comes along who can play chess. Well, chess is a game that suits you or that you don't. Many people prefer to play cards or checkers. But there are also people in our world who play chess without a chessboard and/or chess pieces, they often only play chess in their heads. Many managers and politicians are only too happy to use this on a daily basis during their work.

Is Donald Trump also playing chess with the security of our world?

Last night it was clear in the daily news for a chess player that US President Donald Trump also loves chess. Only at this moment I think he only thinks he knows how this chess game will end. Whether his reality will also become the truth at the end of his current game, we as the world's population will have to wait and see. Many citizens in the world will have held their breath last night as Trump made his next move in the chess game, and in all honesty I wonder if the supporters around Trump's chess table understand the strategy the American President is playing at the moment, I doubt even that the world's most advanced chess computers can still follow him at this point?

What countermoves do Europe and the rest of the world make in this chess game?

Has Trump and the rest of his administration thought seriously enough about the next countermove from the rest of the world? How many moves has Trump already thought ahead, and how quickly does he think he can checkmate the rest of the world, and whether, can he checkmate the rest of the world? How many moves does he still have to make for that and how much damage does he cause to the rest of the world's citizens? How many people in the world do you think will make it to the end of this game, and who checkmates whom? Or are we no longer going to experience all this? Is Trump a democrat, republican or just a communist at all?

What means are used to play chess in this chess game?

Which chess pieces will this "world leader" use to increase his own image? Aren't we just dealing with a spoiled little boy, or a narcissist who was lucky that his father could buy half of Manhattan with relatively little money, making him suddenly very rich? Does this "president" think about what moves his possible opponents can make in this "game", or does he also think that he is playing chess with only little boys?

 Is Trump underestimating the chess skills of EU Leader Van der Leyen?

Okay, Trump thinks he has the largest war machine in the world at his disposal at the moment, but wasn't Goliath also defeated in his battle by the much smaller David? Isn't the "luck" factor completely forgotten or grossly underestimated in this game? If this scale game ends in a draw, will we then move on to the game called "war"? I am afraid that Trump, in all his vanity and narcissism, has forgotten the name Julius Robert Oppenheimer (April 22, 1904 – February 18, 1967), the man who is said to have developed the atomic bomb with Albert Einstein (Ulm, March 14, 1879 – Princeton, New Jersey, April 18, 1955). This atomic bomb once ended a chess game

Will a fatal countermove change the game of chess?

Do you ever think about which moves in the global "chess move" have changed our world for and for the worse? Think, for example, of the history of the "Trojan horse": When the Trojan War has been going on for ten years, the Greek hero Odysseus comes up with a ruse. He has a gigantic wooden horse built in which soldiers can hide. Thanks to this ruse, the Greeks eventually manage to defeat the Trojans. Think what would have happened if Napoleon hadn't been cut off at Waterloo by one of the first Dutch kings, allowing this king to marry a Russian Princess, and also end a chess game. Has Trump already forgotten the Second World War, in which his country represented a brave role, but which turned the whole world upside down and claimed many victims?

Is Elon Musk already making fewer moves?

There are already reports from America that fewer spectators are already watching Trump's chess game. Elon Musk already finds the "match" less interesting who follows him, and how does this match end, or what does the last move look like, do you know?