Year: 2026

Miriam Adelson (with her late husband Sheldon Adelson), where Trump explicitly credited their advocacy with the 2017 U.S. recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, the 2018 embassy relocation there, and the 2019 recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights.

This system didn’t emerge by accident. It was enabled—and supercharged—by the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v. FEC, which opened the floodgates for unlimited independent political spending.

When systems fail, people drink what they can—often contaminated. Cholera and other diseases spread quickly under those conditions. This has been documented repeatedly in Yemen and other regions.

When a country fuels or responds to violence with force while presenting itself as a mediator, that is not diplomacy—it is aggression and control.

And now we’re hearing phrases like “our partner Venezuela” coming out of the Trump administration. That kind of language needs to be called out. In January 2026, U.S. forces carried out a large-scale military operation inside Venezuela, captured its sitting president, Nicolás Maduro, and removed him from the country.

Likud’s original platform set the ideological baseline for the camp Netanyahu inherited: it rejected relinquishing “Judea and Samaria” and declared that “between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty.

I’m not a politician, a diplomat, or a media analyst. I’m just an everyday retired American who’s lived long enough to recognize patterns when I see them, I've lived that long—and I’m fed up.