Russia, Sanctions And Chess Poem by James McLain

They give some of their best chess players
these problems to solve
and they have no reason not to trust them.
Because the root of all evil is,
and those very same roots we use.
Having no interest in foreign policy, only chess
it helps Russia make plans that swell.
Strategically mixed are the two.
Getting Europe to impose sanctions means
in the future, U.S. oil to them we would sell.
Long range American policy,
nearly done with the Arabs we are.
Fifty years from the past is now here.