Milei’s devotion to the Israel government and its US-backed wars has continued in the years since. In video of Milei on Sunday greeting Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during Milei’s third visit to Israel since becoming president of Argentina, Milei exhibited the excitement of a groupie having a chance to meet a favorite singer. Watch here Milei greeting Netanyahu, who Milei declares is his “dearest friend,” “good friend,” and “dear friend”:

Argentina’s President, Javier Milei, meets with Netanyahu in Israel. pic.twitter.com/fJMkYxWJmZ

— Clash Report (@clashreport) April 19, 2026

The friends fest among national leaders extends to America as well. Declared Mike Huckabee, the US ambassador to Israel, while standing alongside Milei and Netanyahu at a subsequent event related to Argentina and Israel increasing the ties between the two nations:

It is a distinct honor to be able to stand here with two of President Trump’s greatest friends. I don’t know of any two world leaders on our planet that our president has more respect for and more personal relationship with than President Milei and Prime Minister Netanyahu. So, it’s an honor to represent the president of the United States and to bring greetings from America to these two wonderful friends and allies.

War on Iran is among the top shared priorities of these three besties, confirmed Milei during his latest Israel visit, declaring the Argentina government’s “firm support for the United States and Israel in their war against terrorism and against the Iranian regime.”

The subject matter of this part of the Bible ties in with Trump’s relentless support of the Israel government in its war efforts in Gaza, Lebanon, Iran, and beyond. The connection is that among the most avid American supporters of the Israel government’s war efforts are those who are committed to helping bring about the creation of a Third Temple in Jerusalem.

The First Temple ended up being destroyed as foreshadowed in Second Chronicles. Later, a Second Temple was built and then destroyed as well.

Among some American diehard supporters of the Israel government’s wars during Trump’s second presidential administration, a key part of their basis for their support is a desire to help ensure the creation of a Third Temple in Jerusalem. They see this as a step moving things along their desired course based on reasoning related to their understanding of Hebrew or Christian theology.

Maybe Trump chose the section of the Bible he will be reading for some other reason. But, it is interesting that the reading he chose fits right in with the reasoning behind a significant portion of the Americans’ strong support for the US government providing the aid necessary for the Israel government to wage its wars.

After exiting from the stirred-up crisis, it seems many Americans are wise to the broader vaccines pushing program of government and its pharmaceutical and medical industries allies. This situation is indicated in a new poll conducted for Politico.

Laura Gardner reported Tuesday at Politico:

Results from the March poll of 3,851 U.S. adults conducted by Public First show that a plurality of Americans question the safety of vaccines, support reducing the number administered and believe that people’s right to decide what they put in their bodies is more important than preventing the spread of disease.

Nearly half of U.S. adults surveyed last month signaled they think the science on vaccines remains up for debate and that it’s damaging to require people to receive them, rather than that the science is clear and it is dangerous to challenge it.

While there is plenty of interesting information in Gardner’s article, one particularly revealing argument is made in the final paragraph regarding the role expediency instead of “the science” played in government imposing vaccine mandates on children. There Garnder, quoting Berkeley Professor Elena Conis, wrote that “[p]art of the reason vaccines were made mandatory for children for school entry, she said, is that ‘it’s always been hard to vaccinate adults’ due to a level of resistance, ‘and vaccinating children…was the most expedient way to get a healthy adult population.’”

Read Gardner’s article here.

So reported Lucas Aulbach in a Tuesday USA Today article discussing Massie’s answers to students’ questions at an event the day before at the University of Louisville. Read the detailed article here.

Massie is an Advisory Board member for the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity.

Here is an update. In March, Colorado Governor Jared Polis signed into law legislation (HB 26-1020) that directs police to issue a summons instead of make an arrest for certain instances of drug possession when such a drug field test is used. It also requires courts to inform defendants, before defendants enter a plea, that the tests have a known error rate, that the tests are inadmissibility in court, and that the defendant has the right to request testing from a forensics laboratory. “The first-of-its-kind law,” wrote C.J. Ciaramella in a Friday Reason article that discusses the new Colorado law in detail, “is part of a growing bipartisan recognition of a problem that news investigations and lawsuits have documented for years: Police officers’ use of unverified drug field tests is inevitably resulting in innocent people being arrested, jailed, and prosecuted.”

Stated Trump:

We’re now totally independent of the Middle East, and yet we are there to help. We don’t have to be there. We don’t need their oil. We don’t need anything they have, but we’re there to help our allies.

Meanwhile, most of the national governments commonly referred to as “allies” of the US are refusing to aid the US and Israel in pursing the war on Iran. They don’t see taking part as appropriate, whether to gain some benefit related to oil or for any other reason. Some are even calling for an end to the war on Iran that is bringing death and destruction on a large scale in the Middle East while causing economic havoc across the world.

Of course, Trump’s admission regarding oil follows the results of his own actions in starting, along with the Israel government, a war against Iran. That attack on Iran has led to the terminating of much oil production, the shutting down of a large portion of oil distribution, and a jumping upward of the price of oil. The oil-related harm to Americans and people across the world arising from the Iran War is too obvious for even most extreme war supporters to now bother trying to explain away.

Trump’s admission in his prepared Iran War address to the American people that that war provides no benefit to Americans related to oil should help increase opposition to the war across America. It should also help lead more Congress members to vote “no” on funding the war.

Will there be any opponents of the Iran War as choices in the race? One possibility to fill that role is Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY).

A CBS Sunday Morning report aired over the weekend was built around an interview with Paul. The report focused largely on Paul having distinguished himself among Republican members of the United States Senate by opposing the Iran War. Indeed, Paul, in the report, called the war unconstitutional and said he will vote against funding it.

Asked if he will throw his hat into the ring for the 2028 presidential election, Paul answered in the report that the chance he will do so is “50-50” and that his decision on the matter will come after the November midterm elections.

Watch the CBS Sunday Morning report here:

In the Wednesday episode of his Peter Schiff Show, economist and investor Peter Schiff laid out some of the details of the financial damage the Iran War is bringing to Americans, including arising from a resulting increase in the US national debt.

Starting off his discussion, Schiff noted that the Donald Trump administration has quickly increased the “down payment for the military for the war” that the administration is seeking from Congress. The amount sought has already multiplied four times from 50 billion dollars to 200 billion dollars. This is special new funding on top of the over trillion dollars spent yearly on what advocates of the spending call “national defense.”

Noting the US government’s “massive deficits” and 39 trillion dollars debt, Schiff explained that “we don’t have plenty of money lying around to pay for this war” or “to pay for anything.” After discussing US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s assertion that taxes will not be raised to pay war costs, Schiff warned that the war will be paid for via running up the US government’s debt further.

The willingness to pile more money on the US government’s debt to pay for the Iran War, argued Schiff, “proves that the biggest threat to the United States is not coming from Iran.” Instead, concluded Schiff, regarding the biggest threat to the US:

It’s coming from Washington, DC; it’s coming from the president of the United States; it’s coming from the Congress of the United States that is spending all this money. The debt is the threat. Inflation is the threat. That’s what the president should be concerned about. Instead of figuring out more ways to spend even more money and go deeper into debt, why don’t we try to figure out how to cut spending?

Continuing, Schiff asked, “instead of focusing on defeating an enemy that really doesn’t represent that much of a threat to us, why don’t we focus on what does — the debt itself?” Good question. Indeed, many people who voted for Trump who portrayed himself as the advocate for DOGE and peace expected the last thing he would be doing as president is piling on more debt to pay for choosing to fight wars across the world.

Watch Schiff’s complete episode here.

These proposed changes included barring US immigration cops from wearing masks or participating in roving patrols, while requiring them to carry proper identification and expand their use of judge-issued warrants for searches and seizures. This is all just part of basic rules for cops in a place where liberty is a priority.

Since then, Democrats in the Congress have used the lack of similar restraints for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as a reason to exercise the legislative branch’s constitutional “power of the purse” by refusing to fund DHS.

The Trump administration has resisted agreeing to much of the proposed changes. It did, though, in a Tuesday letter on White House stationary to Senators Susan Collins (R-ME) and Katie Britt (R-AL) offer five changes that overlap some with the Democrats’ proposed changes. The letter suggests a willingness, under pressure at least, to take steps toward ensuring greater respect for individual rights. Still, it falls short of meeting the Democrats’ demands, much less of supporting the extent of changes that should be implemented to prevent abusive behavior.

In a Wednesday Reason article, Joe Lancaster discussed the insufficiency of the five “concessions” the Trump administration offered in response to the demand for changes in how DHS cops operate. Consider, for example, that Lancaster points out that one of the changes the Trump administration offers is to not deport US citizens — something it even admits in the letter to the senators that it has no authority to do anyways. You can read the details in Lancaster’s article here.

President Donald Trump, in coordination with the Israel government, started the war via a February 28 surprise attack in the midst of negotiations between Iran and the United States.

In his resignation letter addressed to Trump, Kent made substantial arguments supporting his resignation and opposing the US war against Iran. Below is the complete text of Kent’s letter to Trump:

After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today.

I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.

I support the values and the foreign policies that you campaigned on in 2016, 2020, 2024, which you enacted in your first term. Until June of 2025, you understood that the wars in the Middle East were a trap that robbed America of the precious lives of our patriots and depleted the wealth and prosperity of our nation.

In your first administration, you understood better than any modern President how to decisively apply military power without getting us drawn into never-ending wars. You demonstrated this by killing Qasam Solamani and by defeating ISIS.

Early in this administration, high-ranking Israeli officials and influential members of the American media deployed a misinformation campaign that wholly undermined your America First platform and sowed pro-war sentiments to encourage a war with Iran. This echo chamber was used to deceive you into believing that Iran posed an imminent threat to the United States, and that should you strike now, there was a clear path to a swift victory. This was a lie and is the same tactic the Israelis used to draw us into the disastrous Iraq war that cost our nation the lives of thousands of our best men and women. We cannot make this mistake again.

As a veteran who deployed to combat 11 times and as a Gold Star husband who lost my beloved wife Shannon in a war manufactured by Israel, I cannot support sending the next generation off to fight and die in a war that serves no benefit to the American people nor justifies the cost of American lives.

I pray that you will reflect upon what we are doing in Iran, and who we are doing it for. The time for bold action is now. You can reverse course and chart a new path for our nation, or you can allow us to slip further toward decline and chaos. You hold the cards.

It was an honor to serve in your administration and to serve our great nation.

Trump and other supporters of the war on Iran should give Kent’s arguments serious consideration. So too should the many people whose jobs involve helping perpetuate the war.