Author	: Bill Kochman
Publish	: Mar. 19, 2026
Update	: Mar. 19, 2026
Parts	: 03

Synopsis:



As some of my longtime friends will know, when it comes to my online presence on the social networks, I rarely engage in discussions on my timelines which concern politics, war and related secular issues. This is a conscious choice on my part. Simply put, insofar as my social network accounts are concerned, I prefer to focus on sharing God's Word with my readers. After all, sharing the Bible is my primary job as an active online evangelist, and in a world which is filled with lies and deception, the truth of God's Word is what my readers obviously need the most, and NOT questionable rumors of war which change from week to week.

In contrast, when it comes to my articles and series on the Bill's Bible Basics website, I am much more open with regard to my personal thoughts concerning politics and other events and issues which occur in the secular world on a daily basis. In fact, I would dare say that I pretty much "let 'er rip!" This current series is in fact one such article where I'll be doing this. As many of my readers will no doubt already be aware, President Trump won the 2024 presidential election based in large part on his firm promise to NOT engage in any more foreign wars. This key promise was a very central part of his platform in 2024, which his MAGA base gladly embraced. Mr. Trump repeatedly presented himself as being a peacemaker, and NOT as a warmonger. His dedicated followers obviously believed him.

Now, initially, upon assuming office in January of 2025, Mr. Trump seemed to be keeping his promise as he strived really hard -- but sadly, unsuccessfully -- to bring an end to the still-ongoing Russia-Ukraine War. President Trump tried on various occasions to bring Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to some kind of common understanding. Trump tried different approaches and tactics via his primary negotiators -- Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner and Secretary of State Marco Rubio -- yet ultimately without success, and that horrible war continues to this day. Honestly speaking, even I was temporarily misled by Trump's actions, so much so that I defended him with regard to his position concerning that war in an article entitled "False Accusation: Donald Trump Is a Warmonger!".

However, sadly, then what happened? Unable to stop that war -- which has no doubt been a serious blow to Trump's pride and his vanity -- Mr. Trump chose to divert his attention elsewhere. Thus he began concentrating his personal efforts on consolidating America's place of power in the world -- particularly in the Western Hemisphere -- and on protecting America's interests abroad, including in the Middle East. As we all know, pressured by Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, the neoconservatives, NAR -- the New Apostolic Reformation -- and the Dominionists, not only did President Trump break his key campaign promise of not engaging in anymore foreign wars, but tragically, he has done so on a very grand scale.

In fact, for those of my readers who may not be aware of it, to date, since his second term began, for an assortment of reasons -- all justifiable in his own eyes -- the president has now bombed the nations of Iran, Iraq, Syria, the Houthis in Yemen, Nigeria, Somalia, Venezuela, and the alleged drug boats in the Caribbean Sea and in the eastern Pacific Ocean. Furthermore, as I mention in a few of my other Bill's Bible Basic articles, President Trump has rather clear intentions with regard to Cuba and Greenland. In fact, just by paying close attention to his public statements, it becomes rather obvious to me that President Trump more than likely has a plan -- currently in a holding pattern -- for bringing the South American nation of Colombia under American submission and domination as well.

Make no mistake. President Trump has already made a number of public statements on multiple occasions in which he has revealed his intentions regarding these locations. He has put the leaders of all three places on notice that he is coming for them, and he won't be deterred. Furthermore, as I have mentioned before, I believe that sooner or later, he will send the U.S. military into Mexico in order to defeat the powerful drug cartels -- who are primarily responsible for Fentanyl entering the United States -- despite Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo being strongly opposed to him doing so. It is my belief that once Mr. Trump wraps up his Iran War -- whenever that occurs -- he will turn his attention more fully to these other four places.

In addition to all of the above, there is also the rather troubling issue regarding President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu's evil plan to build the so-called "Riviera of the Mediterranean", after Mr. Netanyahu and the Israeli IDF have finished destroying what little remains of the Gaza Strip. If you would like to acquire a really clear understanding regarding President Trump's current mentality and also his current game plan, please consider reading my article called "Trump Fiefdom and the Trilateral World." It is a very interesting read that was written over a year ago. You will find it listed at the end of this same series with a clickable link. Three other related articles which may be of interest to you as well include "Donald Trump, Gaza, and the Tyre Prophecy", "Gaza Strip Horrors and the Trump Plan" and "Donald Trump and the War in Venezuela". These articles are also listed at the end of this same series.

Clearly then, Mr. Trump's actions during the first year of his second term in office are NOT the earmarks of a true peacemaker, are they? To believe otherwise -- as some MAGA supporters apparently still do -- is in my view to actually deceive oneself intentionally, rather than being willing to simply face the awful truth. Contrary to Trump's claims, and his supposed justifications for breaking his key promise by engaging in one military strike after another, Mr. Trump has clearly revealed that he is in fact just another warmonger, similar to so many American presidents who have preceded him. Similar to his predecessors, Mr. Trump's actions demonstrate that he too strongly believes in peace through strength, and that can include blowing the hell out of another sovereign nation, and engaging in illegal regime change. This glaring truth should be more than evident to any half-intelligent casual observer by this point in time, unless one is still drinking the MAGA Kool-Aid.

My dear friends, the simple truth of the matter is that it does NOT matter whether a presidential candidate happens to be Republican, Democrat or Independent. They will tell their constituency EXACTLY what they desire to hear, in order to secure their vote during an election year. But then what do they do? Once they've won the election, they will soon begin backtracking on their campaign promises, and they will engage in major psychological manipulation and gaslighting, as they begin to go against what they had promised to do, or what they had promised not to do during their election campaign. They will endeavor to find all kinds of seemingly logical and justifiable reasons for breaking their word to their support base.

Let's be honest here, my friends. How many times have we seen this same dishonest pattern repeat over and over again down through the decades, regardless of the political affiliation of the president who holds office? And yet despite the rather obvious contradiction between words and deeds, so many blind, gullible, deceived sheeple -- the voters -- keep falling for this same trick without fail, election cycle after election cycle. They apparently have very short memories. Maybe that Kool-Aid they are drinking has messed with their minds. Who knows. I likewise discuss this same subject in my article entitled "To Vote, or Not to Vote? That Is the Question". I encourage you to read it when you have time.

Now, to be fair and balanced regarding this subject, let me also add that I think that some US presidents -- I honestly do not know how many of them -- enter the Oval Office with a genuine, sincere desire and intention to try to keep their campaign promises. However, then something unusual happens. Upon assuming office, US presidents are given access to new information which they were not privy to previously, simply because they did not have the required security clearance.

It only seems natural that this new information will have a powerful effect on them. In fact, I suspect that it begins to alter their thinking and their personal perspective. It changes their understanding concerning certain situations which they thought they had properly understood, but perhaps which they really did not correctly understand -- at least not fully -- simply because they were missing some of the facts which were purposely withheld not only from them, but of course, also from the American public as well. Ultimately, this newly-acquired information will have a direct effect on some of the important, major decisions which they will make from thereafter. Such information may even lead to a leader breaking certain campaign promises, to the disappointment of their constituents and support base.

Before continuing, let me pause for a moment to point out that by my sharing these things with you, I am by no means supporting, condoning or trying to justify any of the poor decisions President Trump has made during his current term in office. I'm simply endeavoring to explain to you what I personally believe are some of the reasons and motivating factors which may result in a U.S. president -- or any national leader for that matter -- backtracking on their campaign promises. Whether or not you choose to accept the reasons they offer is entirely up to you.

As some of my readers will already know, this is in fact what we are seeing occur right now within the MAGA movement. To put it lightly, the MAGA movement is seriously fractured. Amongst some of the more popular influencers, a number of President Trump's closest friends and strongest allies have now turned totally against him, and have called him out due to the Iran War. This includes popular personalities such as Tucker Carlson, U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, media personality Megyn Kelly, political commentator Candace Owens and others. Of course, within both the political and the military spheres, there are quite a few very qualified individuals who at one time supported the president, but who are now some of his fiercest critics. There are too many to name here, but following is a short list of some of the ones whose names you may have heard mentioned in the news:

James Mattis
John Bolton
John Kelly
Mark Esper
Mark Milley
Mike Pence
Rand Paul
Rex Tillerson
Thomas Massie

Of course, as many of my readers will undoubtedly already realize, when different people turn against Donald Trump, his immediate reaction is to go into serious attack mode. The man can be quite fierce, merciless and unrelenting. He'll quickly resort to his usual tactics of ridicule and mockery, as well as constant name-calling and worse. Mr. Trump's ego, pride and narcissism simply cannot handle any level of criticism. As they say, men of force are also men of faults, and Trump certainly has his share of them, as I have discussed before.

At any rate, all of these influencing factors are actually in addition to the aforementioned parties who each try to persuade the president to pivot towards their particular point of view, and to motivate him to do what they think he should be doing. So as I mentioned earlier, President Trump has many different voices trying to influence his decision making process. In other words, besides members of his own party, there is Israel and the Jews, the neoconservatives, NAR -- the New Apostolic Reformation -- the Dominionists, the Roman Catholics, and his influential friends who hold positions of power within the world of Big Business. We obviously can't forget about the latter, because they are directly affected by any decisions and policy changes the president may make.

But these are not the only challenges which a U.S. president may face, as if these aren't already enough to have to deal with. For example, recently I came across an online post in which one of my friends was lamenting the fact that despite controlling both Congress and the SCOTUS -- Supreme Court of the United States -- Republicans have hardly been able to get anything accomplished during the current term. However, in my opinion, his sentiment doesn't really accurately describe the situation, or the real problems. Let me explain what I mean.

To be fair, in this current term, Republicans BARELY control the House of Representatives and the Senate. In both chambers they have a very small majority which allows them to barely squeak by in some cases. With regard to the US Supreme Court, we also need to remember that not all Republican justices are 100% Trump loyalists. Just because they are nominated by a Republican president does not guarantee that they will agree with him regarding every single issue. It is their right to dissent, if they so choose. This becomes evident simply by looking at their voting records. In fact, the nine justices are supposed to remain politically neutral anyway. At least that is the way it is supposed to work in a perfect world.

So, in my view, technically-speaking, I believe that the REAL problem is actually threefold in nature. Please consider the following points.

1. Republicans do NOT have large enough of a majority in either house, so that they can always neutralize the votes of any potential defectors during each vote. In other words RINO votes, or Republicans who vote according to their conscience, and not necessarily according to what President Trump wants. That is why sometimes the Republicans require a few Democrat votes as well in order to push through certain bills.

2. Congress is pretty much frozen and very much polarized. In other words, at this current time in 2026, it's become rather obvious that US congressmen are in large part voting strictly along party lines, and NOT necessarily according to the will of the people they are supposed to represent. Right now, the real game plan is actually party survival and NOT constituent satisfaction, even though these two should really dovetail, right? In other words, surviving in office should be directly linked to voter satisfaction. However, that is no longer the case all the time.

3. As I mentioned a moment ago, six Republicans occupying a powerful seat on the Supreme Court of the United States does NOT guarantee instant victory for any sitting president. As occurs with the congressmen, being nominated by a Republican president does NOT necessarily result in any justice always ruling in a way which is favorable to President Trump's will. They do vote according to their personal conscience and their knowledge of legal precedent, as they ought to do. Their job is to carefully interpret the law, and not to automatically rubber stamp everything that proceeds from the president's desk.

Lastly, when Donald Trump first won the 2024 presidential election, I said back then -- and I have continued to say since then -- that it had become so obvious to me that the key Democratic operative word for the duration of Trump's second term would be OBSTRUCTION. This is proving to be very true. No honest person can deny that the Democrats are very much living up to it at every possible turn. It is apparent to anyone with their eyes open that the Democrats do prefer resistance and obstructionism, rather than contributing to a unified Congress that gets things done for the good of the people. As I said earlier, it is all about party survival, and destroying the other party, or at the very least, making the Republicans totally ineffective during the current term.

My friends, make no mistake. We are living in very perilous political times, partly due to President Trump's abandonment of campaign promises which has both seriously frustrated and fractured a large part of his MAGA base, and partly due to constant Democratic machinations to hinder and prevent some Republican objectives from being achieved. Let me also add that all of the current -- and questionable -- pre-midterms gerrymandering is not helping either. It is like a political game of tit for tat, and I must truly wonder if either party will actually gain any political advantage in the end.

Personally, at this point in time, I can only see one of two things potentially happening in November of this year when the midterm elections occur. Either the Democrats' constant obstructionism -- such as partially funding the Department of Homeland Security and the TSA -- will be their outright undoing during the midterms and they will suffer major loss, or else President Donald Trump's handling of the Iran War -- including the rising gasoline prices and the mounting war casualties -- and the rising cost of living, will be the Republicans' undoing during the coming midterm elections.

Personally, I take it all with a grain of salt, one reason being that I saw through the illusion years ago. I came to understand the smoke and mirrors which are used to blind the American electorate to the truth. I explain all of this in the aforementioned article "To Vote, or Not to Vote? That Is the Question". The Republicans can be very ineffective and weak. We all know this. But there is a reason for this. What else should we expect when both major political parties are a part of the very same Uniparty? They are two sides of the same coin. They are controlled opposition, created to give the illusion of electoral choice. My friends, it is time to get real. In the realm of politics, everything that plays before our eyes is a pre-scripted illusion and a political game, and we are the pawns who are caught in the midst of it all.

While we have taken a slight detour from our main subject of discussion, let's get back on track by returning to the various forces and motivating factors which can directly influence an American president's decision-making process.

Tragically, the pressure on a US president which I described earlier does not end with the aforementioned individuals and parties. To make matters even more difficult, similar to US presidents before him, Mr. Trump must likewise contend with the powerful military-industrial complex -- which President Eisenhower first warned about sixty-five years ago in 1961 -- which is always motivated by war, and the great profits which can be earned through engaging in unending wars, and in selling weapons of war to other nations who are willing to pay the price. For those of you who may not be aware of it, it is the most profitable business in the entire world. For example, in 2023, the legal U.S. arms industry alone generated annual revenue and profit amounting to a total of 318 billion dollars. That is way more than the drug cartels earn.

Thus, as we all know, we now find our country embroiled in yet another major and very dangerous war. Begun on February 28, 2026 when the United States, along with Israel, launched coordinated, large-scale airstrikes known as Operation Epic Fury against Iranian military infrastructure and leadership, our current leaders promise us that it will be short-lived, and that it will not turn into another quagmire similar to the Iraq War, the war in Afghanistan, or the ugly Vietnam War that occurred over five decades ago. President Trump, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, and Secretary of State and National Security Advisor Marco Rubio all insist that this just won't happen.

It would be nice if we could simply -- and blindly -- accept their word. However, the truth of the matter, as is clearly evident, is that the Iran War has only continued to escalate in its level of ferocity and violence -- and geographically expand as well -- since day one. Despite everything that the United States and Israel have thrown at Iran, they continue to fight back, continue to fire missiles, continue to attack tankers in the Persian Gulf, and continue to insist that they will not back down. All this despite the fact that their top religious and political leadership has now been killed; their navy has for the most part been wiped out; their defensive missile batteries have likewise in large part been destroyed; and their own people have been protesting in the streets to some degree. Clearly, the IRGC -- Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps -- ground forces are extremely resilient, just like Hamas and Hezbollah!

This Iranian resilience leads us to another rather pivotal issue. While President Trump and his fellow warmongers have repeatedly insisted that they have zero interest in deploying American boots on the ground in Iran, at the same time, they have NOT ruled out this possibility entirely. In fact, you may have noticed that President Trump has been very careful when this sticky question has been presented to him by inquisitive reporters. However, quite frankly, I think that they are not only lying, but I suspect that they already KNOW that they're lying to the American people.

In fact, certain individuals who are much more qualified than I, have already stated unequivocally that eventually, at some point, the United States military will have no choice but to deploy boots on the ground in Iran. So what is the reasoning behind this determination? Quite simply, a war of the current magnitude, where the enemy is so very entrenched in its home field, CAN'T be won by way of an air campaign alone. The only way to root them out and destroy them all is through the use of a very ugly, dirty, violent, bloody ground assault. In other words, my friends, AMERICAN BOOTS ON THE GROUND!

Even if you have no military background, and don't understand military strategy, simple logic would still lead a person to arrive at the same conclusion, and deduce the very same thing. In my case, upon presenting this same ground troops question to myself, my very first reaction was to think, "Okay, so what is the historical precedent? What happened in all the previous major wars and military skirmishes? So I made a list of some of the past and recent wars and military interventions which have involved the United States to one degree or another. Below is the list which I compiled just from memory. Of course, it is not every single little war and American intervention, but it is enough to make my point:

1. WW I

2. WW II

3. Korean War

4. Vietnam and Southeast Asia War

5. War in Yugoslavia

6. Iraq War

7. War in Afghanistan

8. War in Somalia

9. War in Nigeria

10. War in Venezuela

After compiling my list, I googled for a response. Well, guess what, folks? Of the conflicts I listed above, the short-lived war this past January in Venezuela to capture Nicolás Maduro -- a.k.a. Operation Absolute Resolve -- is the ONLY one where the US military did NOT deploy sustained ground combat troops. Please note that while the 1999 Kosovo campaign was for the most part an air campaign, American peacekeeping forces were deployed following the air assault. So there is the evidence, my friends, and the clear historical precedent which clearly demonstrates that deploying ground troops will almost ALWAYS become a necessity sooner or later. We simply can't deny the actual historical record, can we? So tell me something. Given the demonstrated resilience of the Iranian IRGC -- Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps -- and their stiff determination to go down fighting, do you honestly believe that the current air campaign over Iran will suffice to bring Iran to its knees?

There is another very interesting -- and rather troubling -- point worth noting here. Please notice that I have repeatedly mentioned AMERICAN ground troops. Do you understand what is wrong with my statement and what is glaringly missing from it? If not, let me tell you plainly. Even though the current war is clearly to the benefit of Israel as well -- certain people have outright stated that the USA is actually fighting a proxy war for Israel -- how much do you want to bet that if it does come down to deploying boots on the ground, it will involve either very few, or absolutely NO Israeli boots on the ground in Iran? It will be American soldiers doing Israel's dirty work! Regarding the IDF in Iran, I won't hold my breath!

There is another related issue which is directly tied to the deployment of American ground forces in Iran, and it connects to what I stated earlier regarding the Trump administration purposely lying to the American public. Have you noticed how many times President Trump has publicly encouraged Iranians to rise up against their Islamic oppressors? He has plainly told the Iranians that the combined American-Israeli air campaign will do their best to soften and weaken the Iranian religious, political and military leadership. However, Trump has advised the Iranians that it remains entirely up to them to take the initiative, and to rise up against their oppressive leaders.

Now let me ask you an important rhetorical question. Why do you think President Trump keeps insisting that Iranians must take the lead in the quest for their freedom once the United States and Israel have sufficiently weakened Iran's current leadership? In my opinion, the answer seems rather obvious. Personally, I believe that it's because Mr. Trump knows that if the Iranian public does NOT take the required initiative, then American ground troops will be forced to finish the job which they started in the air, and that is something which they definitely do NOT want to have to do. Why not? Because they know in advance that not only will the United States get bogged down in Iran -- as occurred in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan -- but the number of American war casualties is certain to quickly rise as well, and that will spell serious trouble for President Trump and the Republicans as the 2026 midterms approach. That's why! Dead American troops are a very dangerous red line which the Republicans do NOT want to cross, because doing so poses a clear and present danger to their political success this coming November.

Now we come to a major problem. Contrary to President Trump's expectations, a large-scale Iranian groundswell against Iran's Islamic leadership has largely failed to materialize, despite intense U.S./Israeli strikes during Operation Epic Fury. While some initial hopes for regime collapse existed, the truth of the matter is that many of the Iranians still greatly fear the IRGC. That is to say, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, who still retain very tight control of Iranian society. To add to this dilemma, other Iranians are likewise wary of foreign intervention by the US. As a result, this has led to a muted response rather than a widespread uprising as President Trump had hoped for. Again, this translates into the United States being forced to place boots on the ground in order to really finish the job they began on February 28, 2026. It would also be the only way in which President Trump would have any kind of direct say in who becomes the new leader of Iran, as he has insisted he wants to do. So as I already said, putting US troops on the ground in Iran would be like President Trump's political kryptonite, for all you Superman fans.

Please go to part two for the continuation of this series.

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