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Beau of The Fifth Column

Let's talk about Trump, chess, Venezuela, Ajax....

Beau of The Fifth Column

Beau of The Fifth Column

Society & Culture

4.8965 Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2026

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Let's talk about Trump, chess, Venezuela, Ajax....

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0:00.0

Well, howdy there, Internet people, it's Bell again.

0:05.8

So today, we're going to talk about Trump, Chess, and Venezuela.

0:12.0

We've got a question and a little history lesson today

0:15.5

that might shed some light on why many analysts are skeptical

0:19.7

of the ultimate success of Trump's Venezuela move.

0:23.8

Here's the question. You've implied that this might not work. I'm looking at Maduro in his

0:30.2

little jumpsuit and cuffs and think it looks like it worked to me. It sure seems like Trump plays chess

0:37.2

while you're playing checkers. What? Do you think

0:41.4

they're going to come try to get him back? Right. Because the leader of the country being

0:47.7

captured means the end of the game. Like it did when we captured Saddam in 2003. See, this isn't a chess game, it's foreign policy,

0:58.0

and the game doesn't end when the king, or king and queen in this case, are captured.

1:04.0

The game goes on. It's not chess.

1:08.0

It's an international poker game, where everybody's cheating. The effects of one

1:13.5

hand being played sometimes don't reveal themselves for quite some time. Here's a little

1:19.6

history lesson. In a recent video, I dropped the name of a cleaning product. It was a reference

1:26.9

to a situation where an oil-rich

1:29.3

country decided to nationalize its oil interests, and the U.S. and U.K. wanted to put a new

1:36.2

person in power, because, hey, we're in the oil business. Sounds familiar, right? History doesn't repeat, but it rhymes so the west did its regime change number

1:49.6

an operation at ajax occurred in 1953 and the u.s got its preferred leader the long-term effects of

1:59.3

that little misadventure weren't really revealed for more than 25 years.

2:04.5

And by the time it was revealed, the embassy had fallen. Then American aircraft and troops fell at Desert 1.

2:14.0

It teed up almost 50 years of tensions, nuclear concerns, and wars.

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