stock here, from ZH, an OK analysis. Although “forking” with a bishop means that one of the pieces was already on target, and therefore was already protected. So the start of analysis is flawed.
On Fork number 3. Trump has a great move that can be played — acknowledge that the collective west threatened Russia with putting weapons on Ukraine border with Russia, that Russia would not be able to stop before hitting Moscow (which is in the far west of Russia, 280 miles away). That means 8 minutes with a supersonic missile. Let the full truth out….the Deep State Globalists, who were laundering money through Ukraine, caused this conflict, so they could move huge money and skim off much on that non-accounted for monies. Ukraine is how the Biden family skimmed off 10’s of millions, and the proof was all there prior to this “war”. Russia should keep what they have as a “buffer zone”, give those areas independence but as a territory, and all Russian assets which we have control over, should be returned to Russia.
———————————– This article originally appeared on The Daily Reckoning, which uses the POS comment form Disqus which is clearly a tool of the Globalists to censor, therefore only 2 comments. They pretend that you can log in using Facebook, or X, or Google, but in reality, they just force to to “link” your other account to POS Disqus. I am banned at Disqus (and all accounts leading to Disqus)
I had to go to page 4 of ZH to find the referenced article so I can post my above comment, let’s see how that goes….
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/2025-sitrep-cleaning-bidens-mess
https://archive.ph/Vuz9k#selection-913.0-1036.0
Biden’s Three Fork Moves
The first Biden fork involves new economic sanctions imposed on Russia in connection with the war in Ukraine.
Biden has imposed new “ghost fleet” sanctions on Russian oil exports. The term ghost fleet refers to oil tankers that are not insured in the London market and may involve vessels that are re-flagged, renamed or turn off their transponders while in transit. In short, the ghost fleet is used by Russia to deliver oil exports (usually to China or India) in defiance of western oil export sanctions.
Biden’s new sanctions prohibit ghost fleet vessels from entering and docking in ports of countries that support the sanctions. A number of NATO nations, especially those in the Baltic Sea and Gulf of Finland, have said they will board Russian vessels to check their insurance documents. In extreme cases, oil cargoes may be seized by NATO navies, although that is rare. All these actions closely resemble high seas piracy.
Sanctions of this type never work for long. There are too many ways around them, beginning with the fact that importers like China and India do not support the sanctions. That said, the ghost fleet sanctions will tend to raise the price of oil because finding insurance or taking circuitous routes can be expensive.
Here’s the fork: If Trump keeps the sanctions in place, he’ll be blamed for causing inflation resulting from higher oil prices. If Trump removes the sanctions, he’ll be branded as a Putin puppet. Trump can choose his response, but either way he’ll lose. He’s either causing inflation or bowing to Putin.
The Second Fork
The next fork involves the course of the war in Ukraine. Biden and Ukraine are escalating the war to a point that’s dangerously close to nuclear war. This escalation includes using intermediate-range ATACMS missiles to strike targets inside Russia. Russia responded by using its Oreshnik hypersonic missile to strike a factory in Dnipro. The missile not only destroyed the factory, but turned it to dust.
Biden did not get the message. The ATACMS launches continued, followed by the brazen assassination of a top Russian general and his aide on the streets of Moscow. Biden also delivered tens of billions of dollars of new funding to Ukraine and supplied missiles and artillery shells from severely depleted U.S. arsenals.
The fork: If Trump continues on this pre-determined path, the war will go on as the Biden Neocons hope. That means Trump will get the blame for the ultimate collapse of Ukraine, which is coming. On the other hand, if Trump de-escalates, he’ll be called a Putin stooge and be blamed for any peace deal that concedes Ukrainian territory to Russia. Again, Trump can choose to escalate or deescalate, but either way he’ll be blamed for the Ukrainian defeat. Trump can choose but he’s bound to lose.
Fork Move #3
A third fork involves Biden’s move to steal Russian-owned U.S. Treasury securities to support a loan to Ukraine to be used in its war with Russia.
In February 2022, at the start of the war in Ukraine, the U.S. and European Union (EU) froze about $300 billion of Russian assets in the form of U.S. Treasury securities lawfully purchased by the Central Bank of Russia. About $200 billion of those securities were held in custody by Euroclear, a major global clearinghouse and custodian based in Brussels.
Freezing assets is a standard technique in financial warfare. Typically, the assets remain frozen while the war (or other cause for sanctions) persists but can be un-frozen once some treaty or other agreement is reached. In this case, the U.S. has gone further and actually stolen about $50 billion of interest on the securities to be used as collateral for a loan to Ukraine that almost certainly can never be repaid.
This extreme action is one reason why the BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa and other group members) are moving quickly to build non-dollar payment systems and are acquiring gold as a reserve asset that cannot be frozen or converted by the U.S.
Again, Trump has no good options. If he continues to support the loan made with stolen assets, he contributes to the long-term decline of confidence in the dollar. If he stops the loan program and either demands that the loan be repaid or otherwise restores the stolen Russian assets, he will be accused of undermining Ukrainian war efforts or supporting Russia or both.
As an incoming president, Trump should have freedom of action with regard to policies involving economic sanctions on Russia, escalation of the war in Ukraine, and weaponization of the U.S. dollar through asset seizures. He won’t. Instead, his hands have been tied by Biden’s forking moves that leave Trump with options but none of them good.
Trump’s Countermove
In chess, one way to avoid losing a piece in a fork is to put one of your opponent’s high value pieces in jeopardy. For example, if Black is confronting a fork, it can position a piece to take the White queen in one move. That way, White will act to protect the White queen instead of taking the Black knight or rook. The player on defense (Black) moves to offense to avoid the White fork.
Trump can do the same to Biden. He could hold a press conference or give a speech explaining to the American people exactly how Biden has acted in bad faith and jeopardized the best interests of the United States with his forks.
A transition is intended to give time for a smooth transition from one administration to another. Instead, Biden has used the time to lay traps for the new administration. Trump should call him out, explain why he will act in the best interests of the nation, and insulate himself from the canned criticisms of the progressives and the legacy media. This high road approach will make for an ignominious end to the already failed Biden presidency.