Nobody understands the “4D chess” President Donald Trump is playing against Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Vladimir Putin as he works to secure an end to the country’s war with Russia, Glenn Beck asserted Monday.
From his YouTube channel, the Blaze TV founder wielded a dry-erase marker as he laid out what he believes to be Trump’s bold strategy to secure favorable terms while bringing an end to the two-and-a-half-year conflict between Ukraine and Russia.
“This guy is a genius,” Beck said confidently.
Much of the handwringing over Trump’s terms is based on anticipation that Russia will feel emboldened by capturing parts of eastern Ukraine and carry on with future invasions across Europe. But by all measures, Russian president Vladimir Putin “lost the war,” Beck said.
“If you can’t beat Ukraine” without help from NATO, he said incredulously, “you think you’re going to beat Poland? That’s ridiculous.”
Under Trump’s plan, however, Putin could preserve the appearance of victory, ostensibly appeasing him personally and politically back home, where he is contending with a discontent population seething after 500,000 casualties.
Ukraine would see peace by striking a deal with Trump to offer the U.S. exclusive rights to its stash of rare minerals, a critical advantage that Beck claimed is necessary for national security and economic strength.
“Seventy to ninety percent of” these minerals “come from China now,” he said, and the U.S. is “not going to be the world leader if we don’t have them.”
An array of industries, including clean energy, defense, and everyday electronics, rely on minerals such as neodymium, dysprosium, and praseodymium to build windmills and power cell phones. But Ukraine isn’t Trump’s only play to get them.
“That’s why he said, ‘Maybe Greenland should be the fifty-first state,’” Beck said. The Danish territory is believed to be a repository of rare minerals.
By getting both Russia and Ukraine to agree to let the U.S. mine and purchase rare minerals in the conflict zone, “it weakens Russia’s relationship with China… and we’ve made an enemy a ‘frenemy,’” Beck asserted about Putin.
“Putin, you can’t trust him, but better to have a relationship like this than be saying that we might be going into nuclear war,” he added.
🚨 WHOA… Glenn Beck perfectly lays out how Trump’s positioning on Russia-Ukraine war is absolutely genius. Watch to the end.
“This guy’s a freaking genius! And this is the first time I’ve seen a president actually stand up for America First without hurting anyone else.” pic.twitter.com/IRIA4shmny
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) March 3, 2025
Zelenskyy, meanwhile, can claim victory by securing a peace deal that rebuilds Ukraine through American investments as mines are built to tap its mineral reserves.
“Ukraine will make money. Russia will make money. We’ll get rare earth minerals at a much cheaper level, and China is no longer involved at all — we’ve reduced our dependency on China.”
Viewed holistically, Trump’s negotiations are putting America first, boxing in China, ending the war, reducing spending and waste, and making forward-thinking moves to invest in tech and artificial intelligence resources.
“This guy’s a freaking genius, and this is the first time I’ve seen a president actually stand up for America First without hurting everyone else. We all win!”
