Already during his election campaign, Donald Trump viewed China as the greatest threat to the U.S. plan for world domination.

At the same time, he promised to end the war between Russia and Ukraine over territories that had declared allegiance to Russia in 2014. He apparently agreed with his advisors that without Russian help, he would not be able to subjugate China to U.S. power. His best chance of subjugating China was to gain control over its oil and natural gas suppliers, thereby making China dependent on U.S. approval for the supply of these energy resources.

By threatening to cut off energy supplies to China, he could then force China to make concessions—whether economic or political—in many areas.

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Immediately after New Year’s Day 2026, the U.S. military captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, and Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez decided to submit to U.S. authority, which Donald Trump exploited to seize Venezuela’s oil reserves—the largest in the world. China was one of its main buyers. Another major supplier of oil to China is Iran. The U.S. military, together with the Israeli military, attacked Iran less than two months after the attack on Venezuela on February 26, 2026. The U.S. start to 2026 thus resembled the early days of Hitler’s conquest of the world.

Throughout 2025, Donald Trump sought to win over Russia by trying to force Ukraine and the European Union to accept a peace agreement in the war with Russia that would allow Russia to retain those regions of Ukraine that had rebelled against their integration into the European Union. He believed that this would “buy” Russian support for his efforts to subjugate China. Russia is China’s largest supplier of oil and natural gas. Donald Trump believed that Russia would not oppose his attack on Iran in exchange for gaining the Donbas as part of Russian territory. Vladimir Putin, however, realized that Donald Trump wanted to deprive him of a key ally in the war in Ukraine, and, just as China had done, he began supplying weapons to Iran—just like NATO member states had supplied weapons to the Ukrainian army.

The final blow to Trump’s plans to conquer Iran was his visit to China in May. Xi Jinping apparently warned him that if he did not halt an attack on Iran, China would supply Iran with Chinese hypersonic anti-ship missiles, which Iran could use to destroy the U.S. fleet near the Iranian coast. To achieve victory over Iran, the U.S. would then have no choice but to use nuclear weapons. In that case, however, it could face retaliatory strikes of the same nature from Russia and China, and Russia might take a cue from the U.S. and launch a nuclear attack on Ukraine. It was apparently this line of reasoning that led Donald Trump to abandon his belief that he would win a war with Iran.

On June 20, 2026, Donald Trump announced that Xi Jinping would visit the U.S. in September, adding that he, too, was planning to visit China once more in 2026 (see this). His first visit to China led him to halt his aggression against Iran. Now he apparently had a problem determining to what extent he should participate in the EU’s campaign against historically Russian territories in Eastern Europe, which had not agreed to Ukrainian’s government decision to join EU and NATO and had risen up against it. Donald Trump’s plan—to secure Russia’s cooperation in subjugating China in exchange for promising Russia the pro-Russian territories of Ukraine—failed during his attempt to conquer Iran. Now he was pondering how he could persuade China to stop helping Russia in its effort to reclaim Ukrainian territory that Russia had originally given to Ukraine in exchange for its promise to remain part of the Russian Federation. In 2014, Western Ukraine had not aligned itself with either the EU or the NATO and had rebelled against becoming part of either. An army controlled from western Ukraine conquered part of the rebels’ territory, and the Ukrainian government began to Russify it.

Both Russia and China are well aware that Donald Trump is seeking to dominate the world, and it is unlikely that he will succeed in driving a wedge between them in their alliance against him and the European Union once they seek to advance further into historically Russian territory. China will certainly want to avoid the risk that the European Union and the NATO military alliance will continue to advance toward its borders and threaten it with a military attack, just as they threatened Russia with NATO’s planned entry into Ukraine.

If the war in Ukraine—where the global struggle for power is now shifting back—continues, the world faces even more dangerous times ahead. Will Donald Trump realize once again that he does not want to trigger a global nuclear war? Will the European Union understand this as well?

We can only hope that the world will eventually restore—or rather, improve—the system of collective security that was established after World War II with the creation of the United Nations by creating a democratic United Nations, in which a majority vote would determine that all states that previously voted against an aggressor’s aggression toward another state would attack that aggressor. By abolishing all military pacts, the world could be definitively freed from the struggle for power and the wars associated with it. Likewise, it could restore human governance on Earth and prohibit the manipulation of human thought through neurotechnologies and artificial intelligence, as well as the establishment of an electronic totalitarian global government—whether by a single superpower or by one or more corporations.

Readers can sign the petition addressed to the European Parliament, calling for a ban on the manipulation of human thought through energy fields 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.

In 2010, he published a book on the 9/11 attacks in the Czech language. Since the 1990‘s he has been striving to help to achieve the international ban of remote control of the activity of the human nervous system and human minds with the use of neurotechnology.

He is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG).

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