Disconnected from the realities of a President Trump & his kind of national security team, drawing wrong assumptions & miscalculating probabilities based on the June 2025 12-day war and capture of Venezuela’s Maduro, emboldened by track record of undermining entire governments (Yemen, Lebanon, Syria in the recent past) and ability to export terror and sow chaos — Iranian-regime-IRGC top war planners all pushed for self-destruction by insisting on a nuclear and ballistic-missile path

Typical trait of a highly arrogant official who floats and swims in pool of insane wealth, powers and delusional sense of ability to exercise control over any kind of situation in crushing any challenge to authority, the lessons of the phenomenon of the impossible sudden hard fall of dictators throughout the long and recent history always get lost in calculations of authoritarian leaders including in a late time period of paranoid thinking that leads to imperialistic desire believing political and military muscle-flexing ensures continued strong grip on power and control …

A revelation. Our very difficult and dangerous anti-genocide work, going it alone for many years. How our lone & loud public support of the U.S., and especially POTUS Trump then and again now, narrowed our choices? In any case, no regrets.

16Mar26 – 245am

During a considerable time period of our lives, Rian and I labored in extraordinary and very creative ways to contribute to discreet efforts to stop an organized-crime type of widespread murder of civilians. Instead of availing of offered access and privileges from some well-connected officials and politician-contractors, we opted to remain independent, foregoing millions worth of opportunities and power.

In this country, many, if not most (depending on the national political situation) organized activist groups have their position and stand on issues almost exclusively anchored on their …